Good Job, Brain! - 210: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #42

Episode Date: June 1, 2021

Grab something to drink because this trivia snack mix is making me thirsty! A bit of math & science from Karen with her time unit quiz (but just remember to play Fortnite with her in a fortnight)! A bit of Disney from Chris who tests our live action Disney film knowledge spanning over 50 years. A bit of etymology from "The Long and Short of It" aka Colin's clipped word quiz. And a bit of gawker pop culture from Dana who finds out which one of us is a reality show expert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, dear devil, darlings and darts darting through the darkness. Welcome to Good Job, Bring, your weekly quiz show and Offbeat Trivia podcast. This is episode 210, and of course, I'm your whole. Homeble host, Karen, and we are your multimedia medley of meddlesome medallists who meditate about medieval medicine. I'm Colin. I'm Dana.

And I'm Chris. Do you meditate about medieval medicine? I do. I actually, I mean, I think like bloodletting, like, you know, kind of gruesome medieval medicinal practices, you're like, they're on the right track. But, like, they know something about bacteria or something. something, but, like, just not quite it. Right, right.

My favorite period of a lot of scientific discovery is that phase of, we know that it works, we don't know why it works. Like, I love that phase reading about really just pretty much any, any scientific discovery. Yeah, it's funny how it's like, oh, it's the bad spirits that are doing it. And you're like, huh, yeah. It's like, you're kind of right. Keep going. You're getting more.

Colin, you have a news item for us. Oh, I did. Something in classic Good Job Brain news item, I thought. You guys, I'm hoping you didn't see it just for the sake that I can tell you. But you may have, did you see there were reports in this past week coming from Poland of a variously reported as a mystery tree beast? A window monster. A dangerous beast cited outside of some windows here. Okay, so I'm glad you guys did not see this.

Yeah, I'll read you an article here from the BBC. When animal welfare officers received a report of an unusual animal lurking in a tree in the Polish city of Krakow, they were not sure what to expect. That woman had called in, I guess, to the animal control. She said, people aren't opening their windows because they're afraid it'll go into their house. But a visit to the area showed the creature in question was not a bird or even a reptile, but a croissant. credit to them for reporting yeah so the crackout animal welfare society said the incident was genuine

there was a desperate caller you know concerned this unidentified animal had been in the tree for two days might be a bird of prey perhaps she said you know or maybe you know it might have been an iguana now at that point you know i think that the the animal welfare fair officers. They were, I mean, suspicious is not the right word, but you guys, you know, you may not be surprised to hear that the native iguana population in Krak out in Krakow, Poland, not too high, yeah. I don't want to make assumptions, but yeah, okay. Yeah. So, yeah, so, you know, they figured, all right, well, it's unlikely that it's a reptile kind of out on the streets. Maybe it's like somebody's animal, like an escape to pet or something. So they're like,

all right, let's go out and check it out. So they showed up, yes, arriving on the scene, However, the inspectors found the headless and limbless object in a lilac tree, a pastry, probably thrown out the window to feed the birds. So there was a very delightful post on Facebook. Police promptly arrested the croissant. I have it booked on charges of loitering. Do you think it's because, like, different animals have been eating the croissant that like made the mystery tree beast evolves, like the silhouette.

You're like, oh, you know, it looks like it's a bird because a bunch of birds are eating it. We're like, oh, it looks like a cat, you know. Well, luckily for all of us, if you, and if you read Polish, even better for you, on Facebook, they made a good post. And there's a photo. Now, I have to say, I don't know if they just make croissants differently out there, but this thing, it looks pretty big, I have to say, it's, this looks like this could be

like an 11 inch long croissant. To me, it looks like a croissant, but I knew it was a croissant before I saw the photo. So who am I to judge, right? Oh, okay. So it is a croissant stuck in between two branches upright. It kind of looks like maybe it's perching there. I was thinking like it's flat on like a tree trunk. And I was like, who?

Just like resting there. We can all breathe a side of the leaf. Yeah, everybody now, free to open their windows again. Yeah. Oh, man. You know, I have to say, like, to their credit, in the dark, this, to me, it would look like some sort of, like, giant slug resting on a tree. Yeah. Because it's, like, bumpy and it's bulbous.

Maybe a cocoon for, like, the biggest, the biggest butterfly you've ever seen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. It's a mothra, mothra-sized chicken. Oh, this is pretty funny. All right. Well, without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, pop quiz. Hotchot. Here, I have a random trivial pursuit card. You guys have your barnyard buzzers. Let's answer some questions. Here we go. Blue Wedge for Geography. What is the most commonly eaten fruit in the world?

Dana. Is it tomatoes? Oh, that's good. That's a good guess. This is... Good guess. I wouldn't say this is a trick answer, but it's like you have to think about it a little bit more. That was Colin.

Hmm. Well, I was going to guess maybe the fig? Incorrect. But also, I can see you're kind of on the right track. All right, Chris, last answer. Okay, yeah. Chris, hit us up. Dates.

You're also in the right realm. I thought it was going to be like, oh, Apple, that seems like a really common thing. But obviously, if you think about the world and where most people live, you know, mangoes or coconuts or something. It is mangoes. Ah. Mangos most commonly eaten fruit in the world. That's a good one.

Delicious. Yeah. So if you're having, so if you're having some mango and sticky rice, you've got the most commonly eaten fruit and the most commonly eaten food, right? Yeah. And great. Yeah. All right. Pink Wedge for pop culture.

Which New York girl is the first. woman to win a DGA Award for Best Director of a TV Comedy. Wow. There's a lot going on there. Yeah, because it's in italics. I didn't know how to. Which in I in it? Girl.

Okay. So let me just reread it. Okay. Which New York girl in italics is the first woman to win a DGA award for best director of a TV comedy. Is that Lena Dunham? Correct. Oh, okay.

Gotcha. Gotcha. From the show, girls. Okay. I never know how old these Trivial Pursuit cards are. Like, that's obviously a very recent one. But then we have some that are, yeah, a million years old. Yeah, we have some from the 80s, right, exactly.

All right, yellow wedge. Which of the following words does not refer to the blue portion of the American flag? Canton, Field, fly, or union. Oh, this is good. I love this. I was just reading about some of these terms. Let me reread again. Which does not...

Oh, yeah, sorry, go ahead. Which of the following words does not refer to the blue portion of the American flag? Canton, Field, Fly, or Union. So we have four choices. Canton Field, Fly, or Union. Okay. It's not Field because those are white stars on a blue field. Yeah.

Right, yep. It probably isn't Union because I feel like... I feel like union, like, that represents, like, because those 50 states of the union, right? Mm-hmm. And then we have Canton and fly. I think Canton is similar to field. I think. I might be wrong, but something in my brain is big-way.

Like, the scrapes are maybe about flying. So you guys want to go with fly? Yeah, let's go with fly for $500. Canton is so hard that that's probably related to the stars. You guys are. Correct. Yeah. Good reasoning.

Good work. What is a Canton? I thought it was a province. Here, let's... These terms all have very specific meaning in, like, flags and heraldry and things like that. Oh, I see. Oh, it's a rectangular area at the top hoist corner of a flag. So the stars are in the Canton.

Oh, you go to last year. All right. Purple Wedge, the term power lunch, was coined by an editor at Esquire magazine to describe the lunch scene at which New York restaurant? Specific restaurant. Chris. Sardies.

Incorrect. Power lunch. Power lunch. Yeah, okay. New York restaurant. 90s, 80s, 90s. 80s, 80s. 80s.

80s. All right. New York 80s. It is also a hotel. The Ritz or, no, four seasons, maybe. Correct. It is four seasons.

Landscaping. No, I'm kidding. It's four seasons. Power lunch at the four seasons. Really? Wow, okay. Coined. That's a good one to file away.

Green Wedge for science. What are the four Cs of diamond grading? Oh. How about we each say one? Okay. Okay. All right. Cut.

Uh, carrot. Clarity, I believe. And then color. That's it. Okay. I'm going to flip it. Yay. When my wife and I were dating and we were like, we were in Paris at one point,

we walked by, I think probably Tiffany's or something like that. And she saw the window display. And she was like, hey, so like the best kind of engagement ring, Diamond, in my opinion, is this called the princess. It's this cut, just saying, this is the best kind. For no reason. Right. Yeah, no reason.

I think this is the best kind of cut. Last question, orange wedge. The catchy bluegrass tune, Rocky Top, is played at every football game for which division one university? Colin? I'm going to either make some people very happy or very angry with me. But I, this is a college. I think, I think, and I hope I'm right here. I think it's University of Tennessee.

Correct. Yay. All right. Nice. All right. Sports guy to the rest of it. Those are the questions where when we're at trivia, like, whether we get it right or whether we get it wrong, there is no debate. It's just like, Colin, what do you think it is?

University. Okay, put it down. It's better than nothing. No amount of talking is going to help at all. I could say, like, University of Tubasee. And you'd be guys like, I don't think that's a state, but let's just, you know, let's write it. It could be a city. Yeah, I don't know.

Yeah. All right. Well, you guys, today is episode 210. And every fifth episode, we bring our own quizzes and we make up our own little tests to quiz each other and to quiz you guys, listeners. So today, episode 2010, it's our all-quiz bonanza number 42. Meeting of life. And speaking of life, it is a special day today. It is our own Chris's birthday. It is. We're recording. You're recording this on my birthday. Happy birthday. Thank you. Thank you so much. It did not make a quiz for your birthday. That's fine. That's fine. I wouldn't expect that at all. It's a pandemic birthday number two, which is we're just sort of rolling with it.

telling us how old you turned today? I do mind. I'm 41. No, I turned, I turned. No, no, no, it's not. No, I'm just kidding. No, yeah, I did. I turned. I turned I turned 41. Yeah. So, since it's my birthday, I'm going to go first with my quiz. That's right. So one thing that's happened since we've all, well, certainly since we've been on the extended break we took from doing this podcast that probably affected all of our lives and a profound meaningful, very deep way I don't know about you, but has been the advent of

Disney Plus which I mean not only do we get access to all of the great Disney animated movies and the Marvel Cinematic Universe but also everything else Disney ever made also and the Star Wars universe and the Star Wars universe

and then just also just a pile I was watching I think I was joking about this, but we were watching the EWalk Adventure that made the made for TV movie. And I'm looking at this and you know, Wilford Brimley is in this and I'm like, well this is this is an old

movie. How old was Wilford Brimley? And I do a quick check and it turns out that if you put, Wilford Brimley was just on this side of a 49 years old. He was 49 in that movie.

And I turned to my wife And I, as we're watching his scene, and I'm like, you know, he and I, he in this movie, and I now are in the same decade of life. And Wilford Brimley, I know him as just kind of a stereotypical old guy actor, famously in Cacoon. Like for me, it's, it's Cacoon is. And I think he was like in ads or something. Diabetes. Diabetes. But yeah, he was, yeah.

So, I mean, he was old. You wouldn't have guessed that he was in his 40s. So if you look at EWalk Adventure, he looks like he's in his 60s. He was old, he was old young. Life was harder than, I think. He just aged a lot harder. It looks like Colonel Sanders, yeah. So anyway, that's sort of vaguely related to this quiz.

That was just sort of an aside. But, you know, what you can also watch on Disney Plus is not only Disney's classic animated features, but also Disney's classic live action movies going all the way back. And what I decided to do was to, I wanted to do a Disney quiz, but this is going to be quiz about live action Disney films and these are I'm going to give you

the year and I'm going to give you a plot summary of the film and you are going to buzz in with your car and your bustle. Tell me what is the movie that I am described. Okay. This is spanning decades. This is spanning decades. This is spanning decades. This is spanning from the

1950s to the 2000 and tens. But I'm going to give you the year so you can kind of pinpoint it. So here's how it breaks down. 1994, a child asks God to help a baseball team win.

And God says, okay. It's an angel in the outfield. Is that it? Angels in the outfield? Yeah. Angels in the outfield. Okay.

The judges, it is angels, plural, in the outfield. Judges say you can have that one. Okay, yes. You know, I was maybe an extra in that movie. Oh, you think? Oh, that's right. You talked about it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, and you were in the Coliseum at the time? Yeah, but I don't know if I actually, I don't think I was in any of the show. Right, right, right. But I did try. Did your best. That's fun. Well, Chris, tell me, is it or is it not the case that at the time that movie was made, Disney owned the Angels baseball team?

Oh, I'm not actually sure about that. Or is it before or after? Let's check, shall we? Disney Angels It was right around that time, I think. I mean, there's certainly never one to shy away from Synergy. Well, I mean, there's also Mighty Ducks and the Anaheim. It was acquired in 96, so actually, no, not yet.

Oh, okay. So the movie came out first. Interesting. Yeah, it was actually a remake of a movie titled Angels in the Outfield by Disney from the 60s. In fact, yeah, in fact, a lot of these are actually remakes. A young Joseph Gordon Levitt. Yes, yeah. Wow. Okay.

1989. Darling, my marvelous new invention has had detrimental effects on our children. Karen. Honey, I shrunk the kids. Yes, indeed. Good job. 1976, a mother and daughter get a glimpse at each other's lives for just 24 hours. I think it was Karen again.

Freaky Friday. Freaky Friday. Friday, Freaky Friday. Jody Foster? I think you're right, yeah. And Haley Mills as her mom. Is that right? Not Lindsey Lohan.

You guys are throwing these out and are like, uh, is that true? It looks like Jody Foster, but I don't think it was Haley Mills in Freaky Friday. Haley Mills is in a lot of Disney movies. We've got a couple of Haley Mills movies coming up, yeah. All right. Okay, maybe this might be a little bit tougher. for you. Ninety-five.

A pair of psychic kids must outrun an evil millionaire, the cops, and an angry mob, as they attempt to reunite with their family. Psychic siblings. Dana. Escape from Witch Mountain. You were kind of around it. Escape to which mountain.

Okay. Escape to go there. Yes. Yes. I found it so stressful. I could have. watch it, but it was always on TV. And it was just like, oh, this movie again.

Things are so bad then you escape two witchmountain. Yeah, the kids are kidnapped. And yeah, it's all, it's bad. All right. 1968, a race car driver befriends a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own. That was Dana. Kirby unloaded or Ruby. Kirby finds love.

Can't give it to you. Is that Herbie the Love Bug? The original 1968 film was titled The Love Bug. Oh. Oh, Herbie's not even in it. He was named Herbie, but yeah. So I think later remakes, possibly starring Lindsay Lohan, were in Herbie.

Orby. One of the sequels I remember as a kid was Herbie Goes Bananas. I think we had that one on VHS and my family. Like the car? Yeah, yeah. It was called like Herbie Goes Bananas. Did I have like a chimp in it or a... A 70s was a...

A good decade if you were a chimp actor, for sure. BJ. Yeah. BJ the chimp. Yeah, yeah. Or orangutan as well, yeah. All right, I'm trying to do a quiz here. Sorry.

Ninety-one, the villainous Barnaby tries to break up the impending marriage of Mary Contrary and Tom Piper. Oh. You've heard of it, but maybe you don't know what actually happens in it. Yeah. Karen. Babes in Toyland? Babes in Toiland is in.

There you go. That was pulled out of a hole. It was difficult to summarize the plot of this movie because the plot is all over the place. And I'm not even sure they quite know what the plot is. Yeah. Also in 1961, big year, two teens, meet at summer camp to discover that they are identical twins. Dana.

Parent trap. That's the parent trap. There we go. Krista, was Haley Mills in that one by any chance? She was. She was in it twice. She was in it twice. They had to give her two Oscars because that was the rule.

Also in 1961, big year, a chemist invents a substance that defies all the laws of physics. Colin? Is that Flubber? It is not. Oh, no, again, I'm going for the remake. Is it the, sorry. Was it, it was, uh, was it the nutty professor? It is not.

You're still wrong. Still wrong. Karen? The absent-minded professor? That's it. Oh, too many, too many professors. Exactly. The remake was called Flubber.

This is a, this is a Herbie the Lovebug situation again. Right. Yep. Okay. 2008. A pampered pup is dog-napped in Mexico. That's an eight. Carol. Beverly Hills Chihuahua? It is Beverly Hills Chihuahua. 1959, a cursed ring once owned by the Borgia family transforms a teenage boy into a canine. Yeah.

That's right. They got the Borgias in here somehow. Is it the shaggy dog? It's the shaggy dog. It's the shaggy dog. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. 1957, the moral of this story is, do not get rabies. Oh. Is it Kujo?

It's not Kujo. That was a Stephen King. Is this old yeller? This is old yeller. Oh, no. Old yelder. Yeah. Yeah.

What I didn't know. No, because I have not actually seen this full movie is that I always, the title, the name of the dog, Old Yeller is because Yeller for Yellow, right? Yeah. But also, it's because he yells a lot. Yeah. It actually is both. Yeah. I read this book, I think, for a book report at one point.

And it was one of those, I didn't know what was coming. And, you know, I get to the end. It's not a long book. I get to it. I'm like, what the heck, man? Spoiler alert. For me, it was where the red fern grows. Yeah. Oh, man.

And as a kid, you're like, oh, cute. And then you're like, oh, my God, now I'm an adult. It's taken me to become an adult to trust anything with animals because so many of the things with animals were about killing them. Now, the funny thing about the, so, yeah, so you mentioned it was based on a book. And I learned as I was putting this quiz together. The movie came out, as they said, 1957 was the movie. The book came out in 1956. Oh, wow.

Which means that this book came out, and they were like, this is hot. The film rights to this right away, lock them down. Okay, let's see, 1960, not even temporary paraplegic, and keep this girl from looking on the sunny side of life. Oh, oh, God. 16. Yes. Gana.

Pollyanna. Pollyanna. Holliana. The remade had Rudy in it. Yeah. You mean Sean Ashton? Is that what you're talking about? I know.

Rudy, Rudy. From Oskisho. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Keisha Nightpholeum. Really? I didn't even know that. 19th, also 1960, big year.

Shipwrecked by pirates, a dad, mom, and three sons build a new life on a deserted island. That sound like Dana. Swiss Family Robinson? Swiss Family Robinson. Yeah. I loved this movie. I saw this one a lot as a kid. What happens at the end?

Did they get rescued or did it just live there? They all got rabies. They all had to shoot each other. I know the ending is some of them leave, but some of them stay to form a new colony on the island. With their own family members? Well, I'm sure they would bring more people in. Because otherwise it would get pretty, yeah, pretty weird.

Pretty fast. So pretty weird, pretty quick. 1980 folks 1980 teams of just there's just 15 more

of these left no this is three more three mark 1980 teams of players compete to

solve logic puzzles in an all night race around Los Angeles oh hmm is

is this the midnight run close no I know I've seen this one, but I cannot. I cannot remember the name. This is on HBO like every day in the 1980s. Yeah. This probably inspired my love of escape rooms and puzzle hunts and stuff like that. Because I watched this movie dreaming of getting to do this. It's alliterative. It's alliterative.

Midnight Madness? That's it. That's it. Midnight Madness. Midnight Madness. Oh, wow. I have not thought about this thing in a long time. If you listen to Good Job, Brian, and you have not seen Midnight Madness, I think you, I think you, think you need to. I will. You really should. 2013, 2013, a children's book author butts heads with an animator as he seeks the film rights to her work. Karen.

Saving Mr. Banks. Saving Mr. Banks. Excellent work on that one, yes. Emma Thompson is the author of Mary Poppins, and the whole movie is about Disney trying to acquire the rights to her books. Turns out she's a real piece of work Right, unlike noted Very Normal person, Walt Disney

Right Who was played in the movie As like a very normal I mean, who made this movie And finally We're finally here 2001 A gawky teen discovers that she is in fact

heir to the throne of a fictional European country Colin, I think I'm surprised too But I think this is the princess diaries Yeah, the princess diaries Did I get it right? Two movies I thought would be on here

Were Flight of the Navigator Oh, yep, okay And the bed knobs and broomsticks I thought this had pop us too I remember bed knobs and brimsticks Let me explain to you why neither of those were on the list So Flight of the Navigator was distributed by Disney's Buena Vista Pictures

in the United States only where it wasn't made by Disney. Bed knobs and broomsticks a big favorite of mine is a hybrid movie. It is a hybrid of live action and animation, which is an entirely separate category itself. Perhaps even

fatter for a future quiz. You had a hybrid animation quiz already on the show. Karen, who can keep track of? I don't remember that. One day, we're going to accidentally do like the same quiz or something. I mean, that's for sure could happen.

Yeah, highly likely. Good job, Chris. Thank you. I hope you enjoyed it. My birthday present to you. Well, speaking of birthdays, it is your birthday, and it got me, uh, actually, it was your birthday inspired me to write this quiz. It got me thinking of units of time.

So here I've crafted a couple of questions. There are very weird terms to describe different. units of time. We're going to go in order from shortest to longest about some of these strange words for units of time. All right, this is a buzz and quiz. Though we use it casually to describe a quick second, this unit of time technically represents 150th or 160th of a second in electronics. Also kind of sounds like peanut butter. Also kind of sounds like peanut butter. A jiffy?

It is a jiffy. A jiffy. A jiffy. A jiffy. Official term to describe 1.50th or 160. Really? Interesting. Of a second.

I like that. All right. Here we go. Kelly Clarkson famously saying about this unit of time, an old medieval term for 140th of a solar hour on a sundial. Kelly Clarkson. Dana. A moment?

Correct. It is a moment. A moment. A moment like this. Some people wait a lifetime. Yeah. So a moment. I think it roughly translates to like 90 seconds. Ah, that's good to know. It's time to bash some llama piñatas. If I invite you to play Fortnite with me in a fortnight on May 1st, what date will we be playing it on? Dana. Is it May 15th? Correct. May 15th. A 14th, a fortnight N-I-G-H-T is 14 days or two weeks. Good job. Tell me, what is the very timely term for 40 days?

40 days. 40 days. It's very related to our global predicament. It is a term we hear probably almost every day for the past year. Really? Is it a pandemic? No, it is not a pandemic. But you're close.

Almost every length of time. Oh, no, no. Sweatpants. Quarantine? Yeah. It is a quarantine. Yes. Okay, there we go.

Which makes a lot of sense now. Quarantine, Italian, for 40 days, because back when you were sick, you had to wait 40 days. So that is a quarantine. Right. That's great. A biennium is two years. Trienium is three years. What is a lustrum? Whoa. What is the lustrum? And Colin, you have a guess. Oh, go ahead. Well, I'll take another hint if you want to give me. I'll go. Well, it's named after, it's named after lustration, which sounds very central, but it is not. Lustration is an animal sacrifice.

Oh, I was, I was going to guess 10 years. It is five years. Oh, okay. Why lustration is related to this? Because the ancient Romans, they would take census every five years. And they would couple it with an animal sacrifice. So the term just kind of bled into, oh, a lustrum is five years for the animal sacrifice. Oh, sure.

Yeah. I mean, that's when I do my animal sacrifice is when I go on the census. Yeah, so that's good. All right. So we have talked about Chris's birthday. How many years is Chris away from a jubilee? Colin? Nine.

Correct. It is nine years. He's 41. And a jubilee is 50 years, I think. We mostly hear about jubilee, cherries jubilee. The queen's jubilee. The cherry jubilees is because it was for a Queen Victoria. Coria's 50th Jubilee.

Oh, is that right? Hence Cherry's Jubilee, yeah. Here we go. The last question in my time unit quiz. The MTV Generation would remember this sci-fi cartoon, later a feature film starring Charlie's Theron, whose title includes a term to describe a billion years. Ooh, Chris.

Eon flux. Correct. Aeon. Eon. Eon. Eon. Eon. Eon.

10 to the 9th, which is a billion years. Good job, everybody. No frills, delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrills.ca. Okay, guys, I don't know about you, but I've gotten really into reality shows this year. I think I just really miss seeing people, so I've gotten.

Super into watching people get up to stuff. So I made a quiz about reality shows. You know, there are a lot of very famous people who came from reality shows. Don't list them because they might be on the quiz. So I'm going to give you an achievement that this person had. And then you tell me who they are and what show they came from. So this is a write-down quiz. Everybody have your pin and paper ready.

Question number one. She won the 2019 Rapper of the Year Grammy Award. she's a reality show she's got her star on a reality show 2019 huh 22 years ago so who is it and what show they

oh man oh my goodness huh I hear a lot of crossing yeah I don't know I mean I've got I've got Nikki Minaj for the answer but if that's even correct I have no guess for what show she might have been on

or who this person whoever it is On second thought, it may be too early in her career to be winning the rapper of the year award. But I wrote down because I really desperately want it to be true. I wrote down a bad baby and Dr. Phil. That would be really good. So I'm pretty sure it's Cardi B. And I can't remember. I know she was on a show and she was an aspiring rapper on the reality show.

I put basketball wives. She was on Love and Hip Hop, New York. She was on the 60s in a event, and then she put out Bodak Yellow, and it was a massive hit. Okay, this next celebrity was assistant to the president and the director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison in 2017. She had a high-ranking government position in 2017. Oh, my gosh. I don't want to write down Bad Baby again, but it's probably, I might. Okay.

Okay. You ready, Colin? Yeah, yeah. I put down Omorosa, Managote, and she was on The Apprentice. I also wrote down Omarosa, The Apprentice. I wrote Omarosa, The Apprentice. What's her last name? Officially?

Managote. Managos, Newman. Oh, sorry. Yes, she was married. Yes. Oh, yeah. Yes. In the White House.

Right. Yeah. So she worked there for one year, and then she left, and then she went to, or she was fired. And then she went to And then she went to Celebrity Big Brother And she did really well on Celebrity Big Brother Wow

How about this one She won the 2006 Best Supporting Actress Oscar It was kind of a double Do you know who won Oscar in 2006 2006? 2006 I left it

I left this one like this because we are hardcore about memorizing Oscar People Yeah no man Best Supporting Act I got you you guys.

Also, I think this is something that Chris would know as well. Oh, oh, oh, oh, that's my, that's my hint. It's, it's, uh, uh, Jennifer Hudson, right? Yes, yes. And the show, yeah, what show was she on? Dang it. All right, Chris is doing. So fortunately, at the absolute last second, uh, I wrote down Jennifer Hudson, who was on American Idol.

Oh, of course. Jennifer Hudson, American Idol. She didn't win. No, she did not. No, none of the good people who, I mean, not good people, but like, you know, the people who, the people who become, like, the absolute most successful generally don't win, except for, like, Carrie Underwood won, but, like, Jennifer Hudson did not win. Okay, how about this one?

He is the co-host slash sidekick on the Ellen DeGeneres show. No guess. He's also on her other game show. Karen looks happy. I'm very satisfied. So a former reality show person now, they co-host sidekick on multiple Ellen shows. This guy messed up my Google searches a lot. Well, I'm just going to go for a half point here and just try and guess the show.

I have no idea who this person might be, but I'll guess that he was on America's Got Talent. No. Okay. Chris. Good try. Okay, I have no idea. I put William Hung from American Idol. You know, the guy who's saying she bangs.

I figured, you know, maybe. he'd be really good on Ellen. I wrote the dancer Twitch and he originally came from So You Think You Can Dance. Yes. Twitch from So You Think You Can Dance. Oh, of course she would pick a dancer, right. Yeah, real charming and a great dancer.

Yeah. Okay, next one. He made his feature film debut in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk and as of 2019, he has the biggest first week sales by an English male artist in history. Well, again, I'll go for half point here So I'm pretty sure that's Harry Stiles And I didn't know he was on a show

So I'll guess Britain's got talent Harry Stiles, that's not the show Chris, do you have it? So yeah, I wrote Harry Stiles Is it America's got talent? No No British Idol

I locked this down, Harry Stiles X Factor X Factor X Factor It was the American Idolist show where you could also be, they would group people up into groups, right? Yes.

So he was one of the people, one direction was comprised of five separate individual auditions, grouped in a group. Yeah. Okay, just a few more. In 2016, she authored the novel Rebels, City of Indra, and in 2018, she was the highest paid supermodel in the world.

Cool. Can you repeat? Yes. So in 2016, she co-authored the novel Rebels, City of Indra, and in 2018, she was the highest paid supermodel in the world. Oh. Ooh, this is stumping me. I like models.

I am ashamed to admit that I actually, I believe I'm in the right universe on this one. Okay. Lock in. I'm virtually positive. This is from the Keeping Up with the Kardashians universe. Yeah. And I, it's one of the Jenner's. Is it, is it Kylie Jenner?

Is there a Kai? Is it Ken? Oh, it's the other one. It's not Kylie. I did not write. I don't. Any. Kendall Jenner and keeping up with the Kardashians.

Yes. Yes. That's why we're a team. Let's review oldest to youngest Kardashian family of children of that generation, oldest to youngest. Can you guys do it? Yeah. Well, okay, yeah, Dana, go for it. Courtney, Kim.

Chloe, Robert, Kindle, Kylie. Correct. There you go. This is, you know, I'm sure I've forgotten something important about math in order to remember that. So Rob is like before the Jenner's and after the first three sisters. The Rob line. Okay. How about this one?

In 2020, she and her husband founded Archwell, a philanthropic organization. oh i see what you did that's good so it's a pun of some time these are like world famous people she and her husband reality show man and this just happened in 2020 i'm locked in i don't know i i don't know i'll guess chrissy tegan and john legend and i don't know what show she might have been on but i know she's been on a bunch of shows That's a good guess Okay, all right

I'll take your I'll take that No no That's yes Chris I guess I guess Megan Markle And I don't know

What show she was on So I just put Dr. Phil again Maybe she was a rebellious teen I don't guess I put Megan Markle And she was a suitcase girl On deal or no deal

Oh That's right You tell us that I think That's right She did it. She did 34 episodes of Deal or No Deal. She was on one episode of 1 versus 100 before that. Okay, last one.

He has been the lead vocalist of Queen since 2011. Oh. Oh, yeah. We'll end on a high. All right. All right. Well, since I don't go first, I don't need to write it down. Okay.

I believe that's Adam Lambert. And I think he was an American Idol player person. Yeah. That's what I put. Adam Lambert, American Idol. idol. And I believe that, in fact, he lost. First runner up. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. All the most, the most successful people don't win. Yeah. And then you're on tour with Queen, man. I mean, you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. America said no.

Great job, you guys. There's like a lot of people who came from. I did not know a lot of those people were on like reality show in there earlier. But as you say, like, it's like, it's a pipeline just to fame these days, Karen. So I guess it shouldn't surprise. There's an old Price is Right, a clip of a young Aaron Paul as a very excited contestant. Oh, yeah. My dad was on Price's Right. What? I forgot to tell you this.

Whoa. That's great. Do you have a clip? Your dad is the perfect energy. Oh, your dad is the perfect energy for Price's right. Oh, my God, your dad would be so cute. It's really cute on it. Did he win?

No. Oh. It was like it was really overwhelming to all. Oh, sure. I was like, you didn't think you were going to get picked. You get picked for everything every single time we go anywhere. Oh, God, that's so cute. That's so cool.

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This quiz is about clipped words. Clipped words, also, you may know them more informally, just shortened words. Or, you know, some people call them abbreviations. You know, it's not really right, but an example would be instead of calling it an airplane, I call it a plane. Instead of calling it a telephone, I call it a phone. So we use these all the time, of course. I mean, in fact, we have many words where the clipped word or the shortened word has replaced, really, the longer word. Yeah, yeah.

You can kind of break down some of these words into sort of different buckets. And there's one bucket where, you know, like if I say lab or lab, Tori. You know, you don't necessarily going to think funny, or if I say mayo or mayonnaise, you don't necessarily look at me weird. But like, if I say oh, Karen, I'm going to the gymnasium tomorrow. You know, you're like, you're going to wear? If you're

talking about, you know, I don't wear a braw, but I imagine that if you're talking to your lady's friends about a brazier, boy, you know, I got a new brazier the other day and it fits so well. My last, the last brazier, it was just so uncomfortable and people would look at you. That's what my aunt does say.

She says, yeah. So that's great. great. For like an auntie, you know, it totally fits. And, you know, some of these words, there's kind of like a formal, casual distinction where if I say, you might, like if a newscaster, like if I say, you know, bicycle versus bike, you might look at me weird, but if a newscaster or a police officer says bicycle and a bike, you know what I mean. It's more proper. Yeah. Sort of like, you know, Mr. Burns level, you know, where it's like, it's, you would stand out saying the longer version. So I have a quiz for you guys. guys. And the nut of the quiz, in case you haven't figured it out by now, is I'm going to give you the clip or the short word, and you're going to give me the longer word. I have tried to arrange these to start off very easy, and we will get into big brain zone at the end here. That's what my mom, whose English is her second language, a more so than mine,

she calls good job brain, big brain. And she just goes, she goes, me me, little sister. Mime? Big brain. Big brain show. Fantastic. That's fantastic. Well, in the spirit of big brains. Let's tell you what, let's start with a few super easy, just to get you, just to get your brain juices flowing.

I will call out the short word. You guys just shout out the long word. And then we'll move into buzzer territory after that. Okay, okay. All right. So just a few. Like warm up. Drills. Yeah, warm up.

Exactly. I hope you know all these. If you guys don't know these, they weren't in trouble. All right. Limmo. Yeah, you should just say it out loud. Limousine. Limousine.

Dorm. Dormitory. Ammo. Ammunition. Lunch. I'm going to have some lunch. Luncheon. Luncheon.

Lunch. Yard. Good. Okay. Get your buzzers ready. As I say, I have tried to arrange these in increasing order of difficulty. We shall see. Flew. Woo! I think all of you there, but let's go with Dana. Influenza. Yeah, influenza. This is a great word story, by the way. Do you guys know why the flu? Why influenza? Do you know where that comes from? It basically goes back to medieval Latin in old influenza, like the idea being that you were influenced by, you know, astral movements. I mean, it's an old, old, old, yeah, influenza. Yeah. Stereo. Stereo.

Oh, Karen. I almost fell out of my chair. Yeah, you should do it. Stereophonic? Correct, yes. Stereophonic. Stereophonic. Stereophonic. That's our right, stereophonic sound, if you really want to get, yeah, which, you know, and the root stereo, uh, comes from Greek stereos. So kind of the sense is like, uh, solid or three dimensional sound. So three dimensional sound. Oh. Oh. In that, in that word root, yeah, solid, firm, three, three dimensional. Yeah. And so stereophonic sound, you know, basically just two, two or more, two or more microphones kind of set up to replicate your, your two ears. Memo

Memo I think Chris on that one Let's say Memorandum Correct, Memorandum Latin for Thing to be remembered In the context of a movie or TV

Props You got a prop Like a prop gun Or a prop bottle Chris, Chris again Property It is the property Props, the Properties

And you might still In fact You might still refer to A Property Master in some show production. All right. The piano, the instrument. Piano is in fact short for.

What word Dana, let's say, on that one? Piano forte. Correct, that's right. The original word, piano. And we've been shortening this one for a while. As people, we like to shorten things. Are there other, like, other models? No, the original term of the instrument.

Oh, my goodness. The full proper, correct. name, if you will, it is the piano forte, the soft loud, the quiet loud, at least as far back as the 1800s been shortening piano for. I had no idea. As my wife said, we're saying the quiet part loud, and I like that. All right. Let's move into some vehicles here. Bus. I'm going to catch the bus. What is bus a shortening for? Let's go with Chris on that one, Chris. What is bus? Auto bus. I'm sorry, Chris. I'm not able to do that one. podcast was bus no no

the word it is a well known uh certainly a known word okay okay let's let's let's work together let's a graph let me put it this way there are not a whole lot of words in English that end in bus bus and drone

omnibus yes it is short for omnibus in the sense of it is a conveyance for all it is a common common carriage and that sense kind of carries through to sort of how we use omnibus days. That's right. Yep. Next one. Van. What is

Van a shortening from? Oh, never mind. Dana? Chris? You got a guess there? Chris. Caravan. Caravan. It is in fact a shortening from Caravan. Oh, my God. I thought it was going to be minivan. I was like, no. No, caravan. If you get a new job, in addition

to your salary, you might brag about the perks that you get with the job. What is perks short for Chris with the buzz in? It is short for perk Wait, what are those? Perquisites. How do I spell it? Like requisite, but perquisite.

Per quixit. Per quixit. No, not prerequisite. Oh, my God, this is a word. Perquisite. Basically, meaning any property that you get that isn't your wages. So any kind of gain or fee on top of your original wages. And this is a very, very old word, back to at least the mid-fifference.

1,500s. Holy. Okay. We are now entering big brain zone. The big brain show. Big brain show. Okay. Now, I am not tricking you guys, but just, you know, just open your minds.

Open your minds. Okay. All right. You call a policeman a cop. What is cop shortening from? A cop. I'm going to call the cops. And I want to tell you, this one might be hiding in plain sight if you think about your,

crime story knowledge. The copper? Yes, cop is shortened from copper, not the other way around. I always thought like, yeah, you won't catch me, coppers. Like the element? No, no. There is in fact the verb cop, meaning to grab or to take hold of. That's right.

All right. Go back to vehicles here for a moment. Cab. Catch a cab. Chris, no surprise, maybe the old-timey word specialist here. What is Cab is short for? Cabriole. That is correct.

Cab is short for Cabriolet. This is one of my favorites, which really just meant, you know, like a light, you know, horse-drawn carriage originally. All right, two more here. You got to say it like that, too. Cab. Cab. Yeah, I go to do the New York there. Cab.

Decal. What is decal? A shortening of this one again, a very old word. This is a fun one to say. It goes back to the 1860s at least. Like decal you put on windows, you take it off, like decalibration, maybe. This one comes from a craze in decal technology in the 1800s. Is it decoletage or something like that?

No. You're in the right ballpark, but, you know, that is not it. Decal is a shortening for decalcomania. Decalcala. That's not in the punchbowl. Decalcaemia. Yeah, which itself was a borrowed word from the French, basically, decalcamini, meaning the same thing. In the 1800s, there was a fad on the, when they invented the sort of the, the,

process of transferring designs from the special paper to glass or ceramics, man, people went nuts because you could now, it was like you could print on glass or print on ceramics. And so, yeah, there was a craze in France, the decalcomania craze. And we picked up the word in English, decalcomania. All right, last one. That's big brain. We started, I think my first example was plane and airplane. So we're going to end here with a plane-based word here. You go to get on the plane, and before you take off, you're sitting on the tarmac. Hopefully you're not sitting there for very long. What is tarmac a shortening of? Karen, confidently. What is tarmac short for? I believe this was named after a person, Mr. Tarmac Carthy, or something similar to that?

you're mr tarmac you're in the ballpark there is so there's a there's a word for um old like the sort of the predecessor to asphalt something like that which is macadam so is i mean is it tar macadam or is it is it more than that chris on the nose on the nose tar macadam that's right okay tarmacadam the namesake if uh for scottish civil engineer john macadam uh who developed the process basically of leveling roads and paving them with gravel and he originally did not come up with the idea

of like mixing it with tar or other things but yeah that's today like a macadamized road would be like a binder His name is not tar his name is not tar but the tar it's tar macadamacadam macadam Oh can I say that macadam

macadam were named for a Scottish person named John McAdam but a different John McAdam Different guy Like from around the same period too Yeah that blew my mind I learned about macadamia nut Because like just as you say macadam

Macadamac it sounds It sounds vaguely Hawaiian You know like like a different language And turns out it's not macadam nut Yeah You're like oh okay Of course it's also the most ridiculous thing Because I'm not really sure how the name got applied to it

but it's like somebody just sort of shows up and he's just like, oh, look at these nuts. I'll name these after myself. No. I just, I just Wikipedia did it. It's from Australia. Because I was like, isn't it McCannum? And it was a German-Australian botanist.

He gave it that name in honor of a Scottish-Australian chemist named John McHen. It was just, it was just like, oh, this guy was cool. Named the nuts for him. All right. Good job, everybody. And I'll wrap up our meaning of life, all quiz bonanza, with this last quiz. And it was inspired by, I think, a couple of years ago, we're looking through job applicants and different applications. One candidate had an unusual name. The name is three first names. And so my coworker is like, oh, it's a triple firstee. And I was like, and I thought that was so funny. And so here I have a quiz. Somehow in the 90s, the 90s and aughts was a prime time for actors with their full names composed of three first names. Some of them are TV actors, some of their movie actors. So I'll list their character name and the movie they're from.

And you buzzin at any time when you think you know who this triple firstie is. The triple first. Okay. So here we go. So, Chester from Dude Where's My Car? Oh, Bo. Oh, Chris Kohler, you buzzed in first. Sean William Scott.

Correct, it is Sean William Scott. My next clues are Bo from Dukes of Hazard and Steve Stifler from American Pie. And one thing to add is some of these actors are, you might know them from TV. but I'm only listing movies and if we still can't get it I'll list the TV show they're on but like you know with TV actors in the movies

they're in they're not going to be like big blockbuster movies like this one for example Cody from the Bigfoot The Unforgettable Encounter Rob from first kid I believe that was with Sinbad

any ideas this guy did not have any other okay The only thing that fired even a single neuron was Sinbad He was Brad from the TV show Home Improvement. Oh, okay. Dana.

Is that Zachary Ty Bryant? Correct. It is Zachary Ty Brian. All right. Here we go. We got Sean William Scott, Zachary Ty Brian. Oh, geez. Josh from Dead Man on campus.

He was Andy, the main character, from American Werewolf in Paris. and he was the main character, Guy, from That Thing You Do. Oh. Oh. He was at the very end of La La Land. Yeah, yeah, he was. Yep, he was. His name is Billy Matthew.

Not Sean William Scott. He is Tom Everett, Scott. Okay. Okay, yes. Yep. All right. Wouldn't have that. He was Ronald in Cruel Intentions.

as the cello tutor. He was Derek in Save the Last Dance. Yeah, I know, I know. And then he's credited as, literally as sassy observation, the other token black guy from Not Another Teen Movie. His name is Sean Patrick Thomas. I've heard that name. We should just guess like these random.

I just have a bowl with a Sean, a Patrick, a Scott, a Thomas Pyle. I just grabbed three of them. Yeah, Michael. Here, TV actor, but here are his movie credits. He was Jake in I'll Be Home for Christmas. He played Tom Sawyer in Tom and Huck. And he was Simba in The Lion King. All right, Chris Culler.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Correct. Correct. Along with his TV brother. His on-screen brother. Yep. Zachary Ty Brian. Okay.

A couple more here. He was Henry in Rookie of the Year. What's that guy? He was Calvin in a kid in King Arthur's Court. Oh, man. I can picture the kid. Oh. And he grew up to be casted as Kevin in American Pie.

Yeah. Along with Sean William Scott. What the heck is his name? Oh, I can see his face. His name is Thomas, Ian, Nicholas. Yes. We're going to step out. We have two more.

They're not really in the 90s realm. They're a little bit more recent, but also triple firsties. He played. This is a TV actor, but he was in a couple movies. He was Nick in House of Wales. also along Paris Hilton, I believe her first movie role. He was Jake in Freaky Friday, the Lindsay Lohan version. Yeah.

Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Oh, Jamie Lee Curtis. Yeah. I wish I thought of that. Maybe for a future episode. That's all right. I'm sure there's a lot more out there. Send all your triple thirsties to Karen.

He played Austin in Cinderella's story alongside Hillary Duff. But he was more known for One Tree Hill. His name is Chad Michael Murray. All right, we're going to, man, this quiz is a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. All right, we're going to end the show. I feel like if I was four years younger, some of these would be in your consciousness. In 2009, the film, Zach Snyder's The Watchman, the movie, featured two triple-fifference. firsties actors as Rorschach

and the comedian. What are their names? Oh, okay. So I can also help with hints on what they No, okay. Well, all right. Let's talk it through here and see if it comes to me. So Rorschach, who was a child actor, right, was Jackie Earl Haley. Is that right? Correct. Correct. He was a bad news bears. And comedian, oh, man, he's on Walking Dead now.

I'm blanking on his name. He's on Bray's Anatomy. Give me his first name. Give me his first name. He was also on Supernatural. Oh, he's fantastic. What's his name? Jeffrey.

Oh, Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Correct. Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Thank you. Yeah, he's a great bad guy. He's a great bad guy. Big brains. He's a great ghost boyfriend.

And a ghost dad. All right. Good job. Big brains. Also related my mom would, like, take pictures of mustache things and send it to me. She goes, big brain! Anyways, that's our show.

Thank you guys for joining me and thank you guys, listeners, for listening in. Hope you learned a lot of stuff about long and short, clipped words about reality shows and about Disney live action movies and triple firsties. And you can find us on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, Audible, and on all podcast apps. and on our website, good jobbrain.com. And we'll see you guys next week. Bye.

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