Good Job, Brain! - 20: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #4

Episode Date: July 16, 2012

So many segments in our 4th All Quiz Bonanza show: Chris schools us on "bookkeeping" and crazy English words derived from Japanese, Karen has a mystery round ("Mysteround?"), Dana challenges us to a dance-off, and Colin made us a round of "Sports Trivia for Non-Sports Fans." And guess who's back? THE CRAZY SINGING ROBOT. Also: "backronyms," why Karen is mad at Siri, and one bizarre headline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Hello, shining, sharp shooting Sherlock's. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and off-beat trivia podcast. This is episode 20 to zero. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your almost alluring alliance of alliterating alpacas we're alpacas we're almost alluring we're almost oh okay we're almost we're almost alluring alpacas I'm Colin I'm Dana and I'm Chris I suppose it could have been an alpaca

genetics if your mother had fallen in love with an alpaca instead of your father things would have been different the wheel of fate yes I'm 132nd alpaca based on my family I challenge you to prove otherwise. That counts if you have the right paperwork. That's right. So I would like to thank one of our listeners who let us know that I actually got something wrong because I misspoke. When I was talking about the original development of heroin, I said they were looking for a replacement for methadone. That, of course, is incorrect.

They were looking for a replacement for morphine. Morphine. Methadone is the drug used to get people off of heroin and is, in fact, less addictive. Right. Fun fact, it also begins with the letter M. M, yes. That has to do with heroin, yes. So, actually, I was wrong. Drug knowledge is not really your forte.

I mean, unless the drug is delicious Cabernet Sauvignon. So while, relatedly, on Facebook, Mike Robertson asked us, what's your favorite bit of trivia? Like, what's your forte? I'd say that I contribute to current events and various sort of bizarre political things when nobody else has that answer to hand. I, favorite subject. I mean, I like movies. People listen to the show.

I love movies and Academy Awards. I like sports. My biggest, I like etymology. I love, like, anything with word origin. So I love trying to figure out trivia questions based on the word roots. Yeah, very nerdy. I myself, it's different because there are things that I like,

but I'm not good at, and there are things that I just happen to be good at. And for me, it's definitely geography, world flags, recognizing all the patterns and stuff like that. You say that, but your actual strength is in recognizing photographs of celebrities. I would say me and Dana are pretty equal on that. I read a lot of celebrity gossip.

You guys will frequently identify somebody, and even after you tell me the person's name, I still don't even know who she is. All right, got to trust you. Yeah, so celebrity gossip is a good one. It makes me feel like I'm spending this time for something. It's an investment in the future. You're being productive.

Right. I think pop music is a strength. You're really good at literature, too. In history, I feel like. You get a lot of the presidential questions. It's always because it's like there's some like gossipy, scandally aspect to it. It's like, oh yeah, they did this terrible thing. Well, well, speaking of Pub Trivia, I do want to take this moment to complain about our...

To air some laundry. Yep, yep. Earing grievances. Recently, one of the questions we got from Pub Trivia, what does Siri stand for? Yeah, Siri is an abbreviation for what. And we actually pulled it out of our butt. and got it right. We reasoned out what he was looking for, at least, yeah.

Which we put was speech interpretation recognition interface. Wow. I didn't even know that. Well, you didn't know that because it is not an abbreviation. You know. It has been explicitly stated that it is not speech interpretation and recognition interface. Siri is just a name. I had a feeling that was wrong because I found it hard to believe that out of the three of us.

And we have so many Apple products and pay so much attention that none of us would know that seemed unlikely. So I was not there. What actually happened? You wrote down speech. Yeah, we got it right. And we got it right. Oh, you got it correct. Yeah.

But all of us were kind of looking at each other like, I've never heard that before. Huh. Oh, well. Yeah. And I looked it up and a lot of people are like, that's what people believe to be, but it is not. Siri. In reality, the guy who made Siri wanted to name his daughter, Siri, which is a name that means a beauty or, something very nice in Norwegian and but instead his baby turned out to be a son so he couldn't name

it Siri so he named this project Siri and it could be one of those things where they call a backronym where they assign you know a meaning to a thing that might be an acronym but it is not so if you're at pub trivia and someone asks you that question the answer they're looking for is speech interpretation and recognition interface but that is not true but you know you bring up a good point though we find ourselves a pub quiz a lot where It's not always, do you know the right answer? It's what is the answer the quiz master is looking for? Even if he or she is wrong, you're like, all right, swallow your pride.

I know this is wrong, but this is what they want us to put. Right. And relatedly, I also found out the distress signal, SOS, because I was looking at abbreviations, what does SOS stand for? It does nothing. Yes, I didn't know that. Yeah. That's a good example, though, where a common back formation is save our ship or save our souls.

Yes, exactly. It was just chosen because it's symmetrical. to produce, right? Right, yeah. And it's easy for people to remember who don't know Morse code also. I did not know that. Because right, those are, I believe,

the two letters that are only dots or dash. Only dots or dashes. It's, oh man, it's dash, dash, dash, dot, dot, dot, dot, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, right? Or the inverse. Inverse. Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, right. Yes, okay, sorry.

So it was chosen for the formation rather than for the actual acronym, I guess. And also, I have a weird headline that I have, I came across recently, and I'm just going to read out this sentence. So researchers from University of Virginia have discovered that a bite from a certain variety of tick called the Lone Star Tick could make you allergic to red meat. I hope that doesn't happen to me. I hope that doesn't happen to me either.

How is that evolutionarily advantageous? So this tick and it looks kind of cute. It's, by tech standards. It's very distinctive. It has like a cute little white dot on its back and their saliva carries an antibody that causes the immune system to go crazy and overreact in the presence of sugars found in red meat. Wow. Leading to an allergic reaction. Obviously, you know, different people have different immunity towards different things.

So the allergic reaction graphically shows up as an itchy, burning, high-be sensation. all over your body. No, thanks. Why did you tell people about this? Now, PETA is going to be putting, like, bucket cities in McDonald's party. No! Oh, that's horrible. So, keep an eye out for the Lone Star Tick.

So, this is episode 20, and for every five episodes, we would want to do an all-quiz Bonanza. So this is All-Quiz Bonanza number four. Woo! And we each prepare our own quiz segments to try to stump each other. And before we start off our own quiz segments, it is time for our general trivia segment. Pop quiz hotshot. And I got my random trivial pursuit card. And I'm at a point where I'm kind of having trouble finding the right cards.

Some of these questions are either too biased towards American culture, some of them are too easy and some of them have pictures on it. It's really tough. Trivue Pursuit, get your act together. All right, so here we go. Get your buzzers ready. Blue Wedge for Geography. What country hosted and won the first World Cup in soccer? Ooh, that's a good one.

I think this is, is it Uruguay? Correct. Wow. Pink Wedge for pop culture. What TV series featured an FBI agent named Dale Cooper who loved Cherry Pie? Is this Twin Peaks? Yes! Yes, finally!

Twin Peaks! It's Twin Peaks! Finally! Yellow Wedge. What mark did the Dow Jones surpass for the first time in March 1999? I believe it was 10,000? Correct. All right, Purple Wedge.

Spalding Gray's one-man play, Swimming to Cambodia, was inspired by his experiences filming what, 1984, Oscar nominated drama I have no idea what any of those words mean together I have a guess Is it the killing field? Correct! Good job,

Brain! Green Wedge for Science, what constellation consists of Ursa Major's seven brightest stars? Oh, I'm guessing. Is it the big dipper? Correct. Oh, geez. Oh, man. I got stuck on

I got stuck on, like, thinking signs of the zodiac for some of it. Yeah. Okay, and last question, Orange Wedge. Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction. We remember that. During halftime of the 2004 Super Bowl was unforgettable. But what two teams were playing? Oh, man.

I believe one of them were the Patriots, I think. What was the other team? Jeez. The Carolina Panthers. Oh, okay. Okay. Panthers, Patriots. And the pasties?

Pasties. Oh, yeah. That's a good mnemonic. Panthers, Patriots, pasties. All quiz bonanza number four. Here we go. Who's up first? I will go first.

I would like to say that I prepare these quiz segments in an attempt to make you all feel smart. Thank you. I think Karen does it in the spirit and crushing us. I have named this quiz for you people. It is called Bookkeeper's Delight. Oh. Double, double toy and trouble By a burn and told him bubble

Double double toy and trouble Soundly wicked this way comes In the English language There are only, there are very few words That have consecutive pairs of double letters And so the answer to each of these questions Is going to be a word that has in it Pairs of double letters that actually occur consecutively

They are mashed up right against each other Love it. So, therefore, if I were to say thieving animal, you would answer raccoon. We'll start off easy and we'll get maybe a little bit more difficult. I don't know how difficult it's going to get, but okay, here we go. Double-reed woodwind. Oh, Colin. Energizing beverage.

Oh, Colin. Coffee. Yes. Oh, nice. Worm skewer. Worm skewer. Huck. Worm skewer.

Karen. Fish hook. Fish hook. Oh, good, good, good. Method of air travel. Karen. Balloon. Yes.

Nice. Nice. Personal artwork. Collin. Tattoo. Yes. Oh. Group of decision makers.

Dana. Committee. Yes. Oh, nice. Saliva holder. Dana. Spatoon? Yes.

That's batoon? I like the implication that's like holding it temporarily I was like what's in my mouth saving it for later I'll just keep it my saliva there Chewy candy Oh no I'm gonna say laugh at taffy no

Toffee Toffee Can be can also be brittle But yes And finally One who receives a gratuity Colin Tippy

Indeed. That's such a crossword where you have to read it with a question mark at the end. Right. Those are actually really good crossword clues. And you called it bookkeeper's delight Because bookkeeper is the word that has three consecutive double-incedure. Indeed, it does, yes.

Encyclopedia Brown had that as the solution. Bookkeeper, bookkeeping. I love Encyclopedia. Some hyphenate words that you'll find in the dictionary can also have three consecutive pairs of double letters, such as sweet-toothed, if you count that as one word because it's a hyphenate. Yeah, exactly, right. Yes. Very good. That was good. That was good. We've been talking before about, you know, like the sports questions and trivia, and it's always hard because, like, a lot of trivia nerds don't really like sports. I mean, I think, just because

it seems so esoteric. So I've tried to put together a sports... You're our only sports person. Which is sad. I mean, I do feel like I have a pretty good wide range of sports knowledge, but I find it funny that I'm the sports guy on our team. You are the... No, you're good. You're very good. So I've tried to put together a sports quiz for non-sports nuts. And father, it had such hopes for a son who would take the ropes.

And fulfill all his old athletic aspirations. But apparently now there's some complications. But while I am lying... So you don't. I don't need to know who played the Patriots in the Super Bowl. Hopefully, a lot of these you can guess, or if not, they're just good trivia questions. Okay. All right. Get your buzzer ready. Here we go. Which is larger? A regulation golf ball or a regulation ping pong ball.

Oh, they all seems smooth. Larger in terms of volume. Diameter. Sorry. Diameter. Yeah, outer diameter. Chris. Regulation golf ball. You are correct. Regulation golf ball. They're very close, though. A ping pong ball is 40mm. diameter and I did not know this I learned this a golf ball has a minimum diameter but it can be larger but the minimum is 43 millimeter oh my god yeah within 10 percent yes they have they have they have big old golf balls that you can use if you want yeah i didn't know that you can't go below they're street legal yeah street legal right of ground effects and yeah speaking of golf i'm sure

you guys are at least heard of tiger woods heard of golf you have at least heard of tiger woods all right never no what is tiger woods real name that's not his real name that's not his real name? That is not his real name. He's had the nickname almost all his life, but it is not his given name. Chris? Irvin Johnson. Yeah, he's not bad.

That's Magic Johnson, I guess. It's Eldrick. Oh, I was going to say Eldridge. Eldrick. Eldrick taunt, T-O-N-T-Woods. And apparently his mother invented the name Eldrick. Invention. Oh, she coined it.

Well, it starts with an E and ends with a K. And his father's name starts with an E, Earl, and her name, Coltida, starts the K. Got it. Eldrick Tiger Woods. This Academy Award-winning American actress discovered a love for archery in 1997, and just two years later was a semi-finalist for the 2000 Olympic archery team. Oh, I heard it.

Dana. Gina Davis. Gina Davis. Really? She is just a savant in something. She's in Minza, too. Yeah, she is also in Mensa. Yeah.

So she picked up archery in 1997. She was 24th in qualifying. She did not make the team. She was a semi-finalist. But still. Amazing to go in two years to be a world caliber archer. I wonder how she stumbled upon the sport. Yeah.

It seems really random. Yeah. Well, hopefully she's listening and, you know, she can. You go, Gina. Yeah. All right. So here are a couple of Olympics questions here. So, but hopefully nothing, nothing too crazy.

What is the longest single piece of equipment used in any current Olympic event? Now, let me just clarify. By equipment, I mean something that is used by an athlete or a team. tennis racket would count, but I'm not saying the net, you know, or the dividers in the swing. Oh, okay, not... The rail they use in the snowboard. Nothing that's part of the court or the markings. It's something that

is used by an athlete or a team to compete in his or their events. The fancy magic ribbon. Excellent guess. Excellent guess, not correct. That's it? Chris again. Is it the pole to the pole wall?

Also an excellent guess. I think that's what most people would guess. I eliminated that because that would be the easy answer. So I went to the fancy magic ribbon. It is actually the boats used in rowing. The shells and the skulls, as they're called, S-T-U-L-S. The eight-person skull can be 65 feet long. But it is so funny you say the ribbon, when I was doing some research into this, I had no idea.

So the average pole vault at the upper limit is about 17 feet. The ribbon on the floor gymnastics routine has a minimum length of 20 feet. So it can go longer. Yeah. Yeah, so good call on the second place there. But yeah, it's the rowing boats. And even the shorter rowing boats are longer than the pole vault. I like how you call it the fancy magic ribbon.

I'm sure it has a scientific name. Another Olympic one. Princess Anne of the UK competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. She was on the equestrian team. So she was actually the only member of the British Royal family ever to compete in the Olympics. She was afforded a privilege that no other competitor received. What was her special treatment? Chris

Slave She did not in fact Receive a person Yes Karen Did she bring her own horse I believe they all ride their own horse She wrote the queen's horse in fact

It's just a side little bit of trivia But no that is not it They bowed down to her Also a good yes But no This is a good one She was the only Female competitor in the Olympics

who did not have to submit to a gender verification test. Really? Yes, that's right. Out of respect for the crown and the dignity for a princess. It would expose some royal secrets. So they no longer, openly anyway, do gender verification. They stopped it over a decade ago. But at the time, it was routine, you know, essentially they didn't want...

Well, what you do? Go into a tent and just pull your pants down? Yeah, more or less, more or less. And if they needed a higher level verification, they could do chromosomal analysis. But it was basically a way. of making sure that men weren't pretending to be women and, you know, quote, earning easier medals that way. So, yeah, so she was the only female competitor that year who did not have to take a sex test. Interesting.

So they don't openly do those tests anymore. But they still have to test it somehow, right? I don't believe, no, so the IOC officially stopped it as a practice in 1999. Now, I mean, without getting too in depth, there had been some cases of some of the country committees doing it, but they're not supposed to. Got it. Yeah, it's very controversial. This sports game has been ranked the single best-selling video game of all time with approximately 80 million units sold.

Karen. Madden. That is the best franchise. Correct. Overall, over all the years. Single game, a single game edition. I know Chris is itching to buzz in. Chris.

It was packed in with the best-selling Wii, and it was Wii Sports. It is Wii Sports. Yes, yeah. All right, final question here. And this one was just kind of for fun. So I just went and saw Brave recently And in some of the scenes They have some of the Scottish Highland games

Going on in the background So you guys are familiar with the Kaver tossed? Yeah, yeah. Okay, so they got the giant log And they're tossing it. Okay, do you guys know what the point of the Kaeper toss is? Do you know how you're scored? I had always assumed it was

Well, whoever those are the farthest or the Hyatt. That's not the goal of the Kaver toss. Okay. So if you know this, I'll be very impressed. I used to play an old-timey video game called World Games and it was in one. One of, one of, it was like a knockoff Olympics game and they had caber tosses. Okay.

It was really random. It was like kind of. They're like, we had to fill up one more game here. What can we put it in there? What was it? Chris. Are you trying to get it to stand on end? Not a bad guess.

Not a bad yes. What it is is you're trying to flip it over. Not make it roll. You're not trying to make it roll. You're trying to flip it over once and have it land pointing perfectly straight away from you. Oh. So the goal is like if you're looking like like a clock face, if you're, you're at the middle. You want that thing landing at 12 o'clock with the top end pointing perfectly away from you. The end that was in your hand. That's right. And then they're graded basically on angle. So like a 90 degree angle will beat an 85 degree angle, regardless of distance, regardless of height. So it's actually a game of finesse. It is. Yeah. I mean, strength to begin with. I had no idea there was so much nuance to it. So now when, you know, the caper tossing championships come on TV. I'm TiVoing that. Yeah. Yeah, I will. Now it makes a lot of sense. The whole time I'm like, oh, they're going to get credit.

Yeah, like I'm wasting a whole time. Yeah, like they can even so much a hernia, like, you know, trying to throw this thing. That's even harder, because then you have to introduce another axis of movement to make it face you. And they have a bunch of, like, tiebreakers, like if no one flips it over and things like that. So that was it. So hopefully you guys learned some interesting stuff. Sports trivia for non-sports fans. Very good.

Okay. Time for my quiz. There is a theme, but I'm going to tell you guys the theme at the very end as a two-parter. Whoa, okay. Okay. These questions are kind of random Interest, but they are themed. So number one, launched in 2006, this real estate database website was founded by

former Microsoft and Expedia employees, often featuring value estimates of celebrity and famous houses such as the Brady Bunch residents. Oh. It's like Zillow, Zello, something, right? Correct. It is Zillow. Zillow. Zillow.

And you can look up like famous houses and how much there were. Number two. So this question is inspired by recent Hollywood tabloids. If stag is to deer And bull is to cattle Then what is to cat Tom Correct

Very good Tom or Tom cat Or Tommy cat is the male Cat I got it I see I also learned that the female cat Is called a Molly or queen

Tom and Molly And a group of cats Is referred to as clouder not heard a clouder of cats number three what famous musical show features british comedic actor john cleese as the voice of god chris monty python spam a lot correct uh lovingly ripped off from the nineteen seventy five film monte python and the holy grail of course number four what company boasts the claim america's fastest fourg network's fastest fourg network Oh, that's Verizon claims it, at least.

Correct. Number five. So the world famous Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, is located in what country? Oh. Tanzania? Yes. Wow. Wow, I'm impressed, too.

Good job, Colin Braine. Number six, I'm going to do a little bit of dramatic reading. So this is a famous motto from a very famous and popular show. And you have to identify the show. And I can't believe I'm doing this, but I'm going to do it. Prepare for trouble. Make it double. To protect the world from devastation to unite all people within our nations.

To denounce the evil of truth and love to extend our reach to the stars above. Jesse, James, Team Rocket, blast in at speed of light. Surrender now or prepare to fight. Meow! That's right. Pokemon This theme had better be so unifying And so perfect

It's so upset They had to say Pokemon It's very popular Very popular show No doubt about that Okay number seven What unit of distance in astronomy

Was used incorrectly As a unit of time by a famous fictional pilot who is bragging about his ship That would be the parsec. Correct. Hans Solo. What was his claim?

It can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, I believe, is the unit. Sounds right to me. Yeah, but the Parsec is distant. It's so funny, like, just in the Star Wars fan universe, the gyrations that people have gone through to try and justify, oh, no, he wasn't wrong. He really meant... There's some people like, oh, he actually...

made a mistake because he was bragging. Yeah, well, we'll let the fans battle that one out. All right, last question. Fighting game character Zangeef was initially called Vodka Gubalski during the concept phase. What company does Zangif belong to? We're all looking at Chris. What company? Yeah, company.

Okay, what game does Zangief belong to? Oh. He was, of course, a character in Street Fighter 2. Yes, and what company makes Street Fighter. Oh, okay, Capcom. Correct, it is Capcom And the funny thing about this tidbit is I found this and I was trying to double

check and fact-check this and it linked me, I was digging around the internet, it linked me to an article that you wrote Chris that used you as a source. We're not about citing ourselves. And actually, if anything, I would say you would have to double check that.

Because it's you. Funny thing about the name Zangif, it's actually not possible to have the names and Geif in the Russian language. Well, I mean, I believe it was supposed to It's like zongyif. Yeah. It's the F sound. It's not F.

So wait, you're telling me that game was not an accurate depiction of street fighting around the world? I don't know what to believe in anymore. The theme. One unifying theme to all of these answers. And they seem random, right? They're all portmanteau words. You should have asked. I would have gotten one of your stupid questions.

I'm sorry. He blew the one I was going to get. So Zillow is a portmanteau of zillions and pillows. Oh. Like zillions of dollar or zillions of data and pillows because they're houses. Tom Cat, of course, very famous portmanteau of... Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Yeah.

I see. I see. And spam a lot. Yes. Spam and Camelot. Indeed. Verizon is a portmanteau of Veritas, which is the Latin word for truth and Horizon. Right.

Tanzania is actually very interesting. I'm not sure if I can pronounce this correctly. So I know one of the countries, right? It was essentially formed of Tanganyika was one of the countries, and I forget the other country. Zanzibar. Oh, okay. African Republic, yep.

Ah. Of course, Pokemon is pocket monsters. And Parsec is parallax of one second. Oh. And to be really technical, one actual parsec is 3.4. 6.26 light years, which is about 30.9 trillion kilometers, or if you're American and use our stupid system, it is 19.2 trillion miles. Do you know what Capcom stands for? It stands for capsule computing or capsule computer. Yes. I did not know that. Coined by the company to

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woman in the 20s who wore short skirts, bob their hair, and listen to jazz? Chris's went on the longest. A flapper? Yes. Okay. Okay. So this dance evolved in Harlem in the 1920s and 30s. It existed before under a slightly different name, but it was renamed to what we know now after Charles Limburg's famous cross-atlantic flight. Is it the Lindy Hobb? Yeah. Okay. And And as a bonus question, Lindbergh left from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, and flew to what European city? Oh. Was it Paris?

Yes. So what was the Lindy Hop called before? It was called the Hop. Oh, okay. Yeah. They named it after Lindberg's hop across the Atlantic. So it was all jazzy. So patriotic.

Yeah, it was the spirit of the time. It was pretty exciting for everybody. Oh, yeah. Totally, yeah. Okay. So this dance emerged in the early 90s. It was named for a carton. character from a movie.

What? The Roger Rabbit? Yes. Oh. Bonus question. Who voiced Roger Rabbit? And the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Was Charles Fleischer? Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait, who's that? He was the voice of Roger Rabbit? He was a stand-up comedian and also did a lot of voiceover work. God. It still does, I believe.

This dance originated in the mid-80s and was performed by Janet Jackson in her Rhythm Nation video. It was also performed by MC Hammer, Millie Vanilly and Vanilla Ice. The Running Man? Yes. At this point, I'm basically just going down the list of 90s dances that I know. In this line dance, you can tell your mom I moved to Arkansas or you can tell your dog to bite my leg. That is, in fact, the achy-brakey. That's also a line dance?

Well, I mean, they have a line dance for the song. Got it. Okay, so here's another line dance. This is a four-wall line dance. It was originally choreographed in 1976 by Rick Silver, and it was a funk hip-hop group dance, but now there's variations of it, including the cowboy buggy and the cowboy motion.

I'm going to see the electric slide. Yes. Why do you guys? Because we've been to weddings. Yeah, yeah, okay. So here's a wedding dance, another wedding dance. Perfect. You see how I was thinking.

I was just like riffing, So this dance is strongly associated with the Swiss umpah song and is a perennial favorite at weddings. It has four basic steps that are performed repeatedly as the song speeds up until it suddenly starts. Chris can get it. Oh, it's the dance. Yes, the chicken dance. Yes. Dun-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-da-na-na-t.

Okay, there you go. That song. Okay. This dance is from Parra Brazil. Its name actually means strong slap or hit in Portuguese. Whoa. Yeah. And it's also been called the Forbidden Dance.

Oh. La Bamba. No. No. Lombada. The Lombada. Lombada. So this form of dancing is pretty new, well, newish, and it originated in Oakland, California.

And it's an improvisational form of dance that includes elements of popping, locking, and miming. Its name is an acronym for taking up. room on the floor. And if you haven't seen the YouTube videos of it, you need to YouTube it. It's pretty awesome. I don't know. Is it Hafei? Okay, I'll say it again. The acronym of taking up room on the floor. Yeah. Trough. Trough. Turfing. Oh, I've heard that. I didn't know that's where it came from. Yeah. It is very interesting. Yeah. It's kind of smooth and, oh. Never heard of it. I'm from Oakland. I saw the YouTube video of it. I was like, I think that's in Oakland. I know that street.

I'm so exciting. It's really hypnotic, and so there you go. Very good. Nice. So as we discussed in the bathroom episode recently, I spent some time in Japan, what I am going to do is, we've had puzzles loosely based around this theme before, but I'm going to tell you the exact meaning of the characters in Japanese that make up the word that's passed into English, and you're going to tell me the word.

Oh, like literal translation. Exactly. Go back to the bar in Tokyo Where the demons from my past Leave me in peace I'll be animated every night The grass will be real on the other side And the vampires and walls

So if I were to get this one out of the way Because we all know this If I were to say empty orchestra You would say Karaoke Exactly All of these words are in the official Scrabble Dictionary.

These words are playable in an English language game of Scrabble. Okay. I like that. I like that. Okay. Qualification. Here we go. Start you off easy.

Folded paper. Colin. Origami. I think Karen did buzz in first. Karen, what's the answer? Origami. There you go. Fire bowl.

Dana. Habachi? Habachi. Yeah. Yes. Strength Vehicle Originally, the word was actually shortened from Human Strength Vehicle

As in a vehicle Powered by the Strength of a Human Being Rickshaw? Yes. What? Rick Shaw is from Japanese. This word was introduced from Japanese How do you pronounce it in Japanese?

Biki is strength and Sha is vehicle. Oh, human strength. That's great. Human tower, right, right. art person person involved in the arts Sense No

Sensei actually comes from And that is in fact In English word that I didn't want to use in this It's a little bit tough Because sen means like before And say means life So it's like the person You know who came before you in life

That sort of thing Gaysha Gaysha Yes Means literally a person of the arts Okay Is it a woman? Beautiful

Does it have to be a woman of the arts? or it could be a man. I don't think there are any male geisha. Yeah, but the word has no female connotations. Okay. But that was part of being a geisha or a cortisand was being well-rounded and knowing about art and all performances. That was it. Yeah, exactly.

Super culture. That means sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gisha were not necessarily prostitians. I mean, they were hired entertainment because they were good at the Shami Sen and they were, you know, they were skilled at conversation and that sort of stuff. Worldly. Divine Wind. Oh, that's, uh, uh, that's, uh, uh, uh, that's, uh, uh, uh, uh,

Tsunami? No. No. A typhoon. No. Oh, what is it? Dang it. Divine wind.

Oh, we've talked about this. We've had this before. This one is pretty common. The word for wind in Japanese is Kaze. Kami Kaze. Yes. Kami Kaze. That's right.

That's right. That is divine wind. That is beautiful. God win. Team leader. Oh. Is it Hancho? It is.

It is. Hancho is Japanese for the team leader. A thing to wear. Dana. Kimono? Yes. Kimono just means a thing that you wear. Which makes sense because that was just what everybody wore.

Finger pressure. Shiazhu? Yes. Shihatsu. Oh, good one. Good one. Great lord. Could mean great lord, great prince, great person.

Typically used these days to describe a business person. Or magnate. Is it tycoon? It is. Taekoon. It comes from Japanese. Get out of town. I don't know that.

Um, okay, how about this one? A little bit... Skosh. Yeah, has it? I want to... Iota, but I think that's Greek. Colin. Itty-bitty?

No, no. Bonsai. No. That actually, I believe that means trade gardening or something to that effect. Yeah. Guys, the answer which you whispered to yourselves is Skosh. Oh. It comes from the Japanese word, scoshi, which means a little bit.

I like the people brought it back from World War II. because that was one of the words Oh, right, like, just a scotch. Also, which, of course, which became later, Scooch. Like, so when you're saying, hey, can you scooch over a little bit? You are speaking Japanese. I think I always thought it was like,

and you're also being redundant, but yeah. I think I was always like Yiddish or Hebrew and was an origin, a little scotch, yeah. Skooch. In Japanese. Mindblode. In the dictionary, S-K-O-S-H. Oh, me.

I love the loan words. I love the hidden loan words. Oh, yeah. Well, that's the thing, yeah. Hancho, Tycoon, typhoon, Skosh. You don't know that those actually came from Japanese to the extent that you realize, like, Kabuki, you know, or Shazzer comes from Japanese. And I bet a lot of them came over after the 40s. After the World War, too. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. We had the American

soldiers there for years upon years. Just picking up little words that they would use, you know, when they were like drinking with girls. That's fascinating. That's really good. I'm trying so hard not to say, oh. That's nuts. That's nuts. Right. All right. Well, we have a little dancing earlier. So I'll try and tie it back up here with a little music with the return of of a popular skit called Crazy Robot Computer Singing. If you didn't hear the first time we did this in the last All-Quiz episode,

I have set up my computer to read opening lines of famous songs in a very automated computer voice. And your job is... In old school, automated computer voice. I specifically found a low-quality, sort of feels like a 90s-era computer voice, like what you would imagine in the movies from that era. So it's going to speak the first line.

you guys tell me the song and artist if you can. Okay. All right, we'll start here with a somewhat easy one just to get you guys a sense of how we're doing this here. An old man turned 98. He won the lottery and died the next day. It's a black fly in your shardinay. It's a death row card in two minutes too late.

Oh, Chris. Well, that's Alanis Moress that's ironic. That is, Alanis Moress that's ironic. Too late. Too late in chardonnay. Okay, here we go. Next one, going back a few years for this one. Finish with my woman, because she couldn't help me with my mind. People think I'm insane because I am frowning all the time.

Chris? Is that, it's Black Sabbath, but it's paranoid? It is, paranoid. It is. All right, next one here. A lonely mother gazing out of her window, staring at the sun that she just can touch. If at any time he's in a jam, she'll. be by his side, but he doesn't

realize he hurts her so much. Don't know, waterfalls. That was for both Karen and Dana. I wanted to give you guys. I thought it was going to be for Chris it was going to be Fleetwood Mac. It is so funny how

stripping away all, anything that could possibly be construed as musical from some of these songs makes them unrecognizable. Even ones that we've heard a million times. I mean, for me now, I'm just hoping that it rhymes. Right. And then trying to find the rhyming pairs. That's why I have to rule some of these out, yeah.

All right, here we go. Here's a classic. I've been really trying, baby, trying to hold back these feelings for so long. And if you feel like I feel, baby, come on, oh, come on. Baby. I couldn't tell if we got that one first. Let's get it on. Yes, let's get it on.

Marby. Yeah, and who's the... The Marvin Day. Oh, come on. And that's one of those, like, you hear like the first note of that song instantly, but yeah. Okay, here we go. Another classic, different genre. I'll give you a little bit of a clue there.

I hear the rain are coming. It's rolling around the bend, and I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when. Chris. That is Johnny Cash, Folsom, Prison, Blue. It is. Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues. Which actually is kind of, it's very close to how he sings it in the song. It's sort of his flat delivery. Robot really pulls it out sometimes.

Last one here, last one. And I think any of the three of you guys can get this one. I've had a little bit too much. All of the people start to rush. A dizzy twister dance can find my drink or man. Where are my keys? I lost my phone. It's just dance.

Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga. Just dance. Can't find my drink or man. Can you play that again for us? Yeah, here we go. One more time. That one is too good, not to hear again.

I've had a little bit too much. All of the people start to rush. A dizzy twister dance can find my drink or man. Where are my keys? I lost my phone. I lost. That's the most... He said it's such a sad...

Witness statement. He has a van officer. I lost my phone. Where are my keys? I lost my phone. All right. Well, well done, guys. Well done.

Good round of computer voices. Thanks, Robot. We should name them. You should be Brian. Listeners, feel free to write into GJB. com with your suggestions for what we should name. Well, if this were like an 80s cartoon, it would be, Brian, like b.r.r.

Oh, yeah. Yes. So, yes, please. With a Brian good genre. Exactly. Yes, yes, yes. A backronym. Please, backronym, Brian, or possibly brain the robot, if it works. Yeah. We will give special

consideration to anything that's a good backronym of Brian or brain. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right, and that is our show. Thank you guys for joining me and thank you guys, listeners, for listening in. Hope you had fun. We got robot back. We got some

dancing you can find us on Zoom Marketplace on iTunes on Stitcher and also on our website good jobbrain.com and we'll see you guys next week bye thanks goodbye and by my mouth

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