Good Job, Brain! - 225: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #45

Episode Date: March 8, 2022

Happy new 2022 season! We hit the ground running with our best Wordle strategies, and Colin's tricky cooperation multiple choice quiz, "Can You Beat a Monkey with a Dart Board?" We welcome spring with Chris' quiz about March-related sayings, and Dana's got us thinking hard about wood with "Tree People," inspired by her new carpentry hobby. And can you identify the Shakespeare play by its most famous line? What about when they're spoken by your favorite cartoon characters, thanks to AI technology? Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact [e-mail]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Howdy, loud and rowdy crowd, wowed by Chris O'Dowd and Fox McLeod. This is Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 225. I am your humble host, Karen, and we are your sensualists who insist on lists that consist of gists, twists, and lyricists. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris, sensualist.

Guilty as charged. Welcome to a new season. Yay. Oh, hey, we did it. It's 2022. Year three of the pandemic, the burning question. on everybody's mind is, what is your go-to starting word on wordal? Oh, yeah, I got a good answer here for you.

I will say, first of all, we play as a household, by which I mean my wife plays, and I will occasionally sort of ride shotgun and play together, but we don't compete against each other. And I will give her absolute full credit on this. Her starting word, ethic, E-T-H-I-E-E-H-E. see um of course uh for for those people who have not been consumed by the frenzy and phenomenon that is the daily word game wordal it is like mastermind but with five letter words and every day it's a new word and you're trying to guess what the the secret word is by putting in your guesses in

and i'll tell you if the letters are in like the right place it's the right letter um or if it's the right letter in the wrong place and you kind of use that logic to figure out what the secret word of the day is. And Chris, what is your starting word? I have three starting words. So this was actually something that, as Wordle was gaining steam, my friend, your friend in mine, Andrew Vestel and I were talking about, the way to do this is we have to figure out what are the 10 most common letters for the distribution of five letter words?

because it's not necessarily it's not just the ten most common letters in the english language it's the ten most common letters that show up in english language five letter words um and then put those two in so the the strategy is even if you put the first word in and it has a bunch of letters you always put in the second word as well just to give yourself the most knowledge essentially starting off uh so two words that we landed on were uh oiled and rants oiled rand. That's good. Those are the two starting words that I always put in regardless of what the letters are in the first one.

If those don't give me enough information because those are the ten most common letters, we go to the next five, which is chump. Oiled rants, definitely to start off, oiled rants, chump, if I feel like there's not enough there. And so today's this morning's wordle, can I say it? Did we all do it? Yeah. I did it. Okay, okay.

It'll be weeks in the past by the first. time this episode airs. No, I'm just asking, yeah, well, I'm asking for, you care about us. Yeah, I do. Yes, deeply. You can say. Okay. So today's was skill, S-K-I-L. And once I had done oiled rants, there were a couple letters, but the thing is it didn't eliminate enough possibilities. So I did chump, and there was nothing in there. So now I had gone 15 out of the 26 letters in the alphabet and eliminated a lot of positions and a lot of letters. What the trap that a lot of fell into with this one was they were like oh okay uh spill still swill yeah and then they ran out of tries but because i had already eliminated so many letters i actually sat there i did oiled rants

chup and i sat there for a really long time trying to think of any word that that i could even play at that point because i had eliminated so many possibilities and i thought of skill and i put it just like literally just as like as a playable word at that point. And I put it in and that was it. So I often have, you know, my, my grids will be sort of like gray, gray, gray, got it. You know, it's just because you have to stick with the plan and you can't start guessing. You can't start like actually guessing too early. You can just use those extra turns just to eliminate as much as you can.

And if you say that that's cheating, I'm sorry, like the game is to get a five-letter word and six guesses or less. Dana taught me that. Dana taught me to bench the letters. You know, once you get a couple letters right, like you don't necessarily have to repeat it. You do if you're on hard mode. Dana? Well, I'm so glad you asked because I think about this a lot.

So I saw somebody on Twitter say that they use a rose, A-R-O-S-E, because it has a R and a S, and it has three vowels. And I was thinking about it. And I was like, oh, you know, audio is also good because you can get to four of the vowels. And I was like, booie is also good because you can get to the tricky why.

But I usually do a rose. I do binge the vowels, and I pick consonant combinations. Yeah. Like I do whack or that kind of. Clusters. Yeah, to see if I can surface any of the little tricky ones.

My seven-year-old has been playing because we kind of showed it to him and now he wakes up every morning. And it's like, got to do the wordle. Oh, my gosh. So far has not lost. and today I really thought he was going to get hit because skill is tough

it's got a double letter you know it's got a K I really thought I really thought like we were going to have the talk today about you know sometimes you're going to lose and then he just sat there staring at that grid for a long time he'd put in four guesses

and just suddenly you hear him go oh yeah it's got to be skill and he puts it in I'm just like all right you know he just he really like he he figured it out He's really, he's very good with running through possibilities.

Yeah. Just this very morning, I was saying to my wife as we, we were playing. You know, now that, now that we committed to the starting word, you can't ever abandon your starting word. It's like playing certain numbers in the lottery, right? Exactly. Because like, what if, what if you have now consigned yourself? Like, you would kick yourself if for, yeah.

If that was the actual word. Right. And you missed the chance to get it on the first line. Yeah. Listeners, if you would like to share and tell us what your starting word on Wordle is, please post it on Facebook, reply to us on Twitter. We're very curious and we're on this journey together. Well, without further wordle ado, it's time for our first general trivia segment. Pop quiz, hot shot.

Here we go. I have a random trivial pursuit card and you guys have your barn yard. buzzers at the ready here we go let's answer some questions blue edge for geography which state in its entirety was listed as one of america's most endangered historic places once again which state in its entirety in its entirety was listed as one of america's most that's title case big M. Most Endangered, Historic Places. Chris. Hawaii.

Yeah, good guess. Good guess. Not it. But no. Historic endangered. The whole state. Whole state. Dana.

Is it Alaska? Oh, another good guess. I think we're thinking too much of maybe like national parks. I think this is more historic. places. The whole state. Chris again. Rhode Island?

Oh, I don't know. You're close. It's going for size, right? It is Vermont. Vermont. A lot of historic places there. This is listed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. So maybe like George Washington's house is there.

The whole state. Yeah. All right. Next question, Pink Wedge for pop culture. Which Grammy-winning pop star's first hit was a song, oh gosh, on the Moulon soundtrack. Chris, please. Christina Aguilera. Correct.

Do you know the song title? Oh, is it just reflection? It is just reflection. Good job. Yeah. That's why we're a team. Because that was not in my punch bowl. Next question, Yellowidge.

Which forward-thinking Russian ruler taxed any citizen with a beard? Because being clean-shaven was all the rage in Europe in 1698. Oh, I've heard this before. This was on an episode of Good Job Brain. Is it Peter the Great? Yes, Peter the Great. I've heard this story before and every time I hear it, like I imagine like just there's that guy, you know, down at the pub. Like, yeah, I paid the beard tax.

I don't care. He can't stop me. I'm going to grow it. Well, so it says here, addendum, it was a graduated tax. Nobles paying more than peasants. That is progressive. That's fair. Okay, it's progressive, it's aggressive beard tax.

All right. Purple Wedge, which trio of countries all starting with the same letter does Elizabeth Gilbert journey into her memoir, eat prey love? Oh my gosh. Which trio of countries? Okay, you ready? So the letter is I. Okay. It is Italy, Indonesia, and India, right?

Yes, correct. Italy. Not in that order. Not in that order. Yeah, Italy for eat, India for prey, Indonesia, or Bali, for love. It was off a sign that she had bought at bed, bath, and beyond that she hung in the kitchen. No, that's live, laugh, love. Oh, okay.

Green Wedge for Science and Nature, which innovative Apple mobile product named after a 17th century scientist predated the iPod by a decade? Colin. That is the Newton. That is the Newton. I don't even know what it looks like.

It looks not unlike a little, yeah, like a Palm Pilot. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And, you know, at the time, as you may remember, if you're old enough, kind of, you know, widely mocked in pop culture, sort of it's maybe a little too far ahead of the time, handwriting recognition. You would, you know, you would kind of scribble on it and yeah, yeah. All right, last question, Orange Wedge, sports and leisure. This is both sports and leisure, I guess.

Which Sanskrit word means a yoga pose or posture? Data. Is it a sauna? Yes, it's Asana, my corporate tech world friends, the project management tool for a lot of companies. Asana, it means posture. Ooh, good job, everybody. Good job, Brin. Nice.

All right. We could still do this. We could still do trivia. Yeah. I haven't done it in a while, but, you know. It's like renewing our certification. Like riding a bike. Well, today's show is episode 225, and a typical episode.

of Good Job Brain usually has a theme or a topic where we make quizzes or we research facts for a story segment around that topic. For example, I think one of one of my favorite episodes from last season was our episode about salt. And we did all sorts of things. We had a quiz about salt and pop culture. We have a word quiz with words that have NACL, the letters in them. We talked about the mysteries of the salt flats, and then we had a story about Thomas Jefferson and his quest for finding a rumored magical salt mountain. But every fifth episode, all of that is out the door. There's no topic. It's filled with quizzes and games that we made to stump each other and stump you guys' listeners. So today, it's all quiz bonanza number 45.

I will start. If my math is right, and it always is, this episode should be airing in the beginning of March, the month of March. Well, as they say, March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, right? Right, because it comes in as winter and leaves us spring. Okay. So there are, there's that phrase, and then there's many other phrases that might use the word March. So that's what I'm going to give you right now, is a little word. quiz in which I'm going to describe a phrase or give you the definition of a phrase or an idiom or

maybe the title of something, you know, and you're going to, it's always going to contain the word March in it. So, for example, this is the example because I would not expect this to actually be difficult in any way, but if I were to say an NCAA basketball tournament, March Madness, March Madness, March Madness, March Madness, right, that was the example. No points give it. Okay, here we go. Actual question one. Colin, aren't you out of us? I am.

It was a sports question. It's starting to rub off on us after 15 years. I even know who's playing in the Super Bowl this year. What's his name? The Rams. And then Bengals. Yes. Yes. Look at that.

I didn't know. My heart started beating so fast when you start. I was like, I don't know. What's happening? The Super Bowl? They're doing another one this year. They just didn't. Well, that's what I feel about all annual events these days. Okay, here we go.

You can buzz in with your buzzers. Question number one. Eccentric. Colin. Oh, geez. Hey. No, sorry. Oh, Gina.

March to your own tune or your own drum beat, your own drummer. March to the rhythm of your own drum. I'd be eccentric, but yeah, I like that. Yeah, that's, that's, that's not quite what I was thinking. That might be, in fact, an answer to a different one. Colin. What is, is the crazy as a march hair? Is that, is there a, I'm going to give that one to you.

Yeah, so mad as a march hair. Matt is a March hair is the expression. Yes, yeah, that I was looking for. Phrase uttered by a soothsayer to Julius Caesar. Oh. Oh. Karen? Uh, beware of the aides of March.

Yes, beware the aides of March. Now, what's, now, Karen, for a bonus point, what is the aides of a certain month? Technically, so every month has a different eyed. I want to know technically, absolutely. But in March, I believe is the 15th. Oh, I mean, not the, not the date, but like, what is, like, how do you define the ides of a month? Is it right in the middle?

It generally falls in the middle of the month, but it's not the middle of the month. Oh, interesting. Is it about the moon? It's about the moon. It's the full moon. It's the day on which the first full moon in the new month is. Yeah. Okay, so this is where I had, to be a non-conformist.

March to the beat of your own drummer. Yes, either march to the beat of your own drum, march to the beat of a different drummer. A different drum. Right, right. Okay. Okay. All right. Gain a secretive advantage against an enemy.

Gain a secretive advantage. They're hard. People used to use this a little bit more like to either get an advantage on something or for something to get ahead of something else. Probably if you're into like reading military books or to gain a secretive advantage against an enemy. Colin? Marching at night Yeah, so it's not quite that

But it's basically you have the idea of it So the idiom here is to steal a march on Oh, okay And yeah, that could be Again, in its most literal sense It would be we march during the day And then while they slept, we kept marching at night So they thought we were a day behind

But we stole a march on them It's used in business as well to jump ahead and get an advantage against somebody that they don't expect coming. Okay, nature documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman. Karen was first. March of the Penguins. March of the Penguins. There we go.

There we go. Why did I put this in? A newsreel series shown in movie theaters from 1935 to 195. Oh. I didn't know that names. Victory on the march. Was it something? What was it?

What was it? I always thought it was like time marches on. No. Dana is closer, actually. Oh, okay. It is called the March of Time. The March of Time. The March of Time.

All right. Okay. Okay. Last question. Musical piece from the Nutcracker Suite. Karen. I know you know it. Somebody else.

I was thinking walt of the flowers, but I was like, oh, that's a vault, not a march. That's like, somebody else. The soldiers march, nutcracker march. Tin soldier. Nobody's gotten an exactly right yet. Rat King. The Rat King's March, is it? It is, in fact, it is called March of the Toy Soldiers.

Oh. Yeah, we were dancing around, marching around it. Okay. Okay. Now there, now there is an opportunity here for, bonus point. In France, this novel is known by the title, The Four

Daughters of Dr. March. Oh. Turing. Little women. It's little women. Oh. Little women. Yeah. The March sisters.

I wonder why they put the dad in the title. Yeah. We don't really. It's not even barely even there. Yeah. Happy March, everybody. Happy March. So it has been about a year, a little bit more than a year of my one year anniversary of my episode of The Chase, the game show I was on when it aired, which means that now I am free to apply to other game shows. I can finally take the Jeopardy test again.

And I recently took the Jeopardy test. I completely bombed it, but that's okay. We do it again. You know, one of the things that gets asked on Jeopardy pretty much all the time in these tests are Shakespeare quotes. Shakespeare Info, Shakespeare plays, name this play, what character, a lot like sports. There's just so much trivia. There's so much. It's such a big corpus of, yeah.

It's a pit. It's a big pit. I decided to make a Shakespeare quiz for everybody. kind of famous quotes that you hear tossed around, but there is a twist. I've used the technology of artificial intelligence, and I got some familiar cartoon friends that will be performing these lines to you. And I made it so that the lines, the quotes actually kind of fit. The speaker.

You know what? AI is pretty good. It's not completely perfect in terms of pronunciation, but it's not bad. this is how the quiz is going to structure instead of all of us buzzing in we're going to go one by one around the table and you get assigned a clip that you will hear it is up to you to identify two things you have to identify which play is this quote from and who is speaking it okay okay what cartoon character is speaking it this is an episode man this is an episode like I'm like I wrote I wrote a little I wrote a word quiz Karen, it's like, I harness the power of artificial intelligence to force-famed cartoon characters. It's going to pull in both of the

high art and low art parts of our brains here at once. Who wants to go first? Nobody... I'll go first. I'll go first. There was a couple of years in a row. I was going to the Shakespeare Festival in Oregon. Oh, okay. We would try and read, we would try and read

whatever they were putting on that year. So if it happens to be one of those two or three, maybe I'll have a better chance so yeah hit me up hit me up this is your clip i'm going to play it twice and then i'm going to share the line and then i'll play the clip again number one so the line is all the women are merely players so the line is all the world's a stage and the men and women are merely players let's hear that again I'm glad I didn't go first. Oh, really?

I feel like I got half of it, but okay, man. By half of it, you mean you know the character? Yeah, that's right, right. I mean, it certainly sounds like Mr. Donald Doug, but... We hear that line a lot. Where is it from? Yeah, I believe that's one of like the big three. I'm going to, man, I'm going to say ham.

but I would not be surprised if I'm wrong. That's what I would have guessed, so. It is as you like it. As you like it. Yeah, okay. And voiced by none other than Mr. Donald Fauntleroy Duck.

Oh, wow. All right. Yep. Dana, you are next. Here is your clip. All that glitters is not gold. Linus, all that glitters is not gold. Let's hear it again.

All that Gladys is not gold. Is that Mo Sizzlack from the Simpsons? Yes! Mo? Okay, good. But which plays are from? The Merchant of Venice. You are correct. Yeah! Oh, my God!

I just pulled one right out of the punchbowl. I was like, it's about money in some way, yeah. Nice work, yeah. That was Mo from The Simpsons dispensing some good advice. And this is from Merchant of Venice. All right. So, Chris, your turn. This is your clip.

Please identify the voice and identify the play it's from. Un-easy lies the head that weighs the crown. The line is, uneasy lies. the head that wears a crown Let's hear it again Un easy lies the head that weighs the crown That Wants the crown UnEasy lies the head that wears the crown

Doc Yeah So it's Bugs Bunny And I believe it's from Macbeth That feels right That feels plausible at least King Lear

I threw out Mcbeth Maybe I'm right Maybe I'm wrong Henry 4 Henry the 4th Henry the 4th So this scene is War is approaching

Right and so he He has bouts of insomnia Because he's whirring So he's kind of like Envious of the stable boy And of other people who can just like Sleep at night without worrying a thing But yet he's the king

And he's responsible So Henry the 4th Slash Bugs Bunny All right Colin your turn again this is your second clip. Here we go. If music be the full of love play on. The line is, if music is the food of love, play on.

Okay, I've definitely, that's a great quote. If music is the food of love, play on. Okay, okay. Let's hear it again. If music be the full of love, play on. Okay, I mean, I'm just going to be, you know, taking a guess here at sort of one of the sort of household name plays, I guess. I do not have a great guess on the character.

Man, I'll guess Taming of the Shrew. Would you say this is a very famous character or a second tier character? Oh, man, okay. Very famous. I feel really bad. You're going to feel bad when you... Wait, Dana, you know the voice. Please, please, tell us.

Is Stewie from Family Guy? Oh, of course. Stewie Griffin from Family Guy. If music is the food of love, play on from 12th night. Okay. 12th, man. Big whiff for me on that one. Dana, your turn.

This is your second and last line. Here we go. A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse. The line is, A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse. A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse. A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse. a horse.

That one, if you told me that was a straight clip from an episode, I would have absolutely, it sounds, but it sounds so authentic. They even got the lisp down. Need to wipe the duck spit off my face. Daffy Duck. Correct. Daffy

Daffy Duck. Of course, a horse my kingdom for a horse. This is such a famous line. Yep. And I... Another king, another royalty. Is it another one of those king ones? Yeah. True. True. Okay. Right. Right. Yeah, you're right, right. Incorrect.

It is Richard the 3rd. Oh, geez. Richard the third. The big battlefield scene, he was doing so well. He lost his horse while fighting. Obviously, you know, just not having a horse was not to his advantage. So, Chris, your turn. This is your clip.

Here we go. Friends, Romans, Contraming, Len Mier is. That's a good one The line is Friends Romans, Countrymen Lend me your ears And they throw their ears At him

And once more Friends Romans Contraemen lend me your ears I am honestly Okay so first of all I believe the line is from Julius Caesar Yes Yes

Romans Romans I'm having trouble with the character I can't place it It is. You're right. It is from Julius Caesar and the person who is reading it. Good news, everyone. Professor Farnsworth from Futurama. Knowing Karen, I knew there would be a Futurama one in here somewhere. We could not go without one. Yeah. I should have thought ahead. Yeah. Good job. I have one last one. Buzz in if you know. This is one that we can all enjoy. Lord, what wills these mortals be?

That just sounds like it's straight out of Mickey's Christmas Carol. Yeah, right, right. It sounds so good. That's goofy, right? Oh, Lord, what fools these mortals be? Okay, well, what fools these mortals be? This is a god talking, right? Is this Mid-Summer Night's Dream?

Correct, it is Mid-Somers-Night Dream. Or at least some supernatural, right? A fairy or something. Fairies in horny teenagers. Horny fairies. Horty fairies as well, the gist of Midsummer's Night Dream. You guys had to thank me because originally this entire quiz was going to be spoken by Toad for Mario. And the files, two lines in, I couldn't take it anymore.

I had to shut the machine down. I think we need an example. So here is an example. Oh, that plasters is not both. So aggravating. Yep, yep, yep. That could not, that could not sustain it. No, no.

Well, good job, everyone. Wow. Thank you. Amazing use of technology. Really incredible use of technology. Oh, is it, is it glisters? In the text, it actually says glisters. not glisten, not glitter, but glister

and that was originally, but now I've modified it to glitter. Good note, good note. Shakespeare was trying to make up a new word. He didn't make fetch happen with that. No, he did not make up. Okay. There's dozens of people

hitting delete on their actually emails right now. They're like, oh, okay, yeah, she is. Let's take a break and we'll be right back. When Johann Raul received the letter on Christmas Day 1776, he put it away to read later. Maybe he thought it was a season's greeting and wanted to save it for the fireside. But what it actually was was a warning, delivered to the Hessian colonel,

letting him know that General George Washington was crossing the Delaware and would soon attack his forces. The next day, when Raul lost the Battle of Trenton and died from two colonial Boxing Day musket balls, the letter was found, unopened in his vest pockets. As someone with 15,000 unread emails in his inbox, I feel like there's a lesson there. Oh well, this is the Constant, a history of getting things wrong. I'm Mark Chrysler. Every episode, we look at the bad ideas, mistakes, and accidents

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Smooth puzzles, smart trivia. Good job, brain. Hey, you're listening to Good Job Brain. And this week, it's all quiz Bonanza number 45. I have been waiting for us to come back. I've been working on this quiz for you guys for a little while here. A lot of fun putting this one together. So, you know, people tell us, people tell us, friends, listeners, people who come with us to Pub Quiz,

that whether they play with us or not, one of the things they like is watching how our process works and kind of our interaction. And, you know, I think we are a good team, like not just, I don't just mean like we know things, but we work well together and like part of the fun is figuring out, all right, well, somebody knows this for sure and somebody has a good guess here and how do we do that little dance. So I wanted to put together a quiz that can put all of that kind of fun stuff on display. So this quiz, you all are going to work together, okay? And going to pretend you're at Pub Quiz, pretend I'm the quiz host. So Karen, I will appoint you as the team captain.

I will ask you to work these out. You will give me your final answer. Now, here's the rub for this quiz. This is a multiple choice quiz, okay? So every question, you guys are going to have four options here. The name of this quiz is, one out of four ain't great, or working title, can you beat a monkey with a dartboard? And I say that because, as I say, each question is multiple choice. You have four options.

You could, of course, just guess and bank that you'll end up on average getting one out of four correct. True, true. In other words, the same as a moderately steeled monkey with a dartboard could get. There will be eight questions. There will be eight questions. So your goal is to get three right, okay? Because the monkey over here with the dartboard, you know, he's going to get two. We just know that he's going to get one out of four.

So you guys got to get three. That's your goal. Question one. Of the presidents on Mount Rushmore. All right. Now that is, of course, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, just to be clear. Thank you. Thank you. Which is the only one of these presidents who was under six feet tall.

Who's the only one of these presidents? Okay, not Abraham Lincoln. Yeah, he's tall. Well known as being quite tall. George Washington. I think George Washington is tall in my. Oh, yeah. In Hamilton.

But this was like a long time ago and people had different nutrition. Yeah. Yeah. The thing is, With George Washington, it was like, George Washington, you know, the guy's painting George Washington and he's like, oh, George Washington, the founder of America, the father of our country, and he paints him as eight feet and a half tall, you know what I mean? And he cleans up all the pimples on his face. So it's kind of like, you can't really trust a lot of these imagery

that you sort of see. I'd say Jefferson. Yeah, I mean, if I had to put something down, I'd say Jefferson. I think so, too. He would wear like shoes, like, like heels, you know, that's fashionable. Okay. French. Yeah, sure. They were. They were fashionable in French.

Sure. Oh, sure. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So maybe he was sort of adjusting his height with the, uh, with the, uh, with the, I don't know. Okay. What's, what's your final answer here?

Who's the only one of these four men? Who's the only one of these four under six feet tall? Under six feet tall is, isn't, isn't even that short. Okay. Uh, Thomas Jefferson. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry. That is incorrect.

Uh, but you are, you guys, you guys did do reason some of the reason incorrectly. Obviously, yes. Abraham Lincoln, still to this day, uh, the record for our tallest president, that's six-foot-four. Wow. And, you know, it's interesting. I had always read one of the things about George Washington. If you were to meet him at the time, one of the things that would stand out was how tall

he was. George Washington was six-foot-two. So, yeah, in his time, I mean, verging on, you know, being a giant, right? So not George Washington, not Abraham Lincoln. I learned reading the research for this that Thomas Jefferson was actually taller than George Washington, but I'd never heard too much about this. Thomas Jefferson, six, two and a half. So it is, in fact, Teddy Roosevelt at 510. And presidents do, in fact, skew taller than the average American male. And, you know, there has been some research over the years that does show that

taller candidates do tend to perform better to what degree we can attribute that. Who knows? But, yeah, Theodore Roosevelt tied for only 28 height, 5'10. Maybe that's why he's always pictured on a horse. He does seem like he'd be taller, right? Very imposing and the rough riders and just the big outdoorsman and all that. But okay, so, woo, all right. Sorry, guys.

So that's a strike there on question one. So moving along. That's right. The monkey missed too. We're there with the monkeys. Yeah, don't worry. That's right. The monkey has not gotten.

a question right. All right. Moving on. Question two to another set of highly influential Americans. Katie Perry, Taylor Swift, Beyonce, and Lady Gaga. Which of these bestselling performers has not, has not performed a Super Bowl halftime show. Oh, wow. So it's not Beyonce did it. Lady Gaga did it. Katie Perry did it. It's got to be Taylor Swift. 100%. Okay. Oh, I like it. I like the 100% of the confidence. Yes, that is correct. Taylor Swift of these ladies is the old man who has not yag. Now, you know, it's funny. She is, of course, one of our best-selling performing artists. She has historically been a Coca-Cola sponsored performer. Huge mega-contract with Coca-Cola and the Super Bowl halftime is a Pepsi joint.

I believe, as recently as a few years ago, they reported she is banned her contract with Coca-Cola for bids her from playing the 10thes. Wow. Yeah. Okay, put your science hats on here for question three. And well done, by the way. You guys are on the board here with one question, correct.

Did the monkey get it? The monkey, ooh, the monkey did get it. Wow. So he's, the monkey's outperforming, so you're keeping pace with the monkey. All right. Yeah. Okay. The walnut, the chestnut, the macadamian nut, the pine nut which of these is the only true nut botanically speaking walnut chest nut macadamian nut pine nut three of them are

not nuts one of them is a nut so that they're also different i guess i guess the thing is like what is the definition of a nut right because like every time every time i'm ever eating nuts somebody's just like, you know, that's not really a nut. And I'm just like, I don't care. Like the cashew is a fruit or something. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're right.

Like the peanut is not a nut. But like the, okay, so the. Pine nut does not feel like a nut because it feels like a seed. It's like when you cook it or eat it. It's closer to like a pumpkin seed or a sunflower seed. Almost. How do droops come in? How do droops come in, Karen?

That's a great question. How do droops come into this picture? I will tip my hand. a little bit. I will say many, many, if not most of what we call the false nuts actually end up turning out to be droops. What we call the false nuts. Sounds like our improv comedy troop name. All right. So I've heard a compelling case against pine nuts. So are you down to three? I mean, what's the, uh, I'm just trying to think like which, which one is there one of these that's fundamentally different than the others? I think walnut has, walnut out of all of these have

the haves. Pecons also have halves. Yeah. I, yeah, I could see going, I could see going with walnut just because, yeah, it has halves. We're overthinking it. Yeah. Walnut, chestnut, macadamia nut, pine nut. Macadamia nut, that's what. It doesn't have halves, though. The only one of these, yeah, I think I really like carry.

Well, you can cut anything in half. If you try hard enough. It's true. Yeah, he's got a point. He's got a point, guys. Okay. All right. Final answer, Captain.

Let's just go with old walnut. Oh, I'm so sorry because the saying is right there in front of you, that old chestnut. The chestnut is the only of this list, the only true nut. Yeah. Yeah. So a true nut, the true nut is basically it is a single seeded fruit that is encased in a in a tough, hardened, ovary wall. Okay? It has to be dry.

Has to be inside in ovaries. And it has to be fused to the shell. So it doesn't naturally break open on maturity. It doesn't naturally crack open the way. Yeah. So the walnut does that. So, yeah. So other true nuts.

What are some other true nuts? So in addition to chest, a hazelnut. A hazelnut is a true nut. An acorn. An acorn is a true nut. Not nuts, as you mentioned, peanuts are not nuts. Famously, you know, I think we all learn this. They are legumes, like a soybean, another well-known legume.

almonds are droops seeds cashews are droops walnuts are droops like the walnut on the tree there's a green fruit that it comes in pine nuts are seeds macadamia nuts are droops pistachios are droops

nothing nothing is enough nothing nothing is a nut you're telling me what they sell at Costco with the blue lid which is not even just mixed nuts extra fancy mixed nuts None of them are nuts.

It doesn't say mix nuts, droops, droops seeds, and legumes. Yeah. Yeah. I learned something really interesting here about macadamia nuts. Oh, let me back up. Let me back up. When I say macadamia nuts, what part of the world do you guys immediately think of? Australia.

Hawaii. Oh, someone said Australia. But, right, I was, yeah, you're going where I'm going. I think Hawaii until I did some research. I learned that almost all of the commercially grown macadamias in the world, can be traced back to a single stand of trees in Gympie Australia. I read that in this town, and I hope I'm pronouncing it correctly in Gympie, Australia,

in the 1880s, a handful of seeds were exported from Gympie to Hawaii where they basically, literally, they seeded the entire Hawaiian macadamia industry to this day. Yeah, like they can do genetic sampling and they say, like, they're not only, like, they say they may have come from, like, even a single tree. It kind of just blows my mind at this whole industry. So you would go there, and you would say the whole industry started industry. Industry, industry. All right, moving right along, moving right along.

Okay, luckily the monkey missed there as well. I will tell you, the monkey did not know his nuts on that way. I don't believe that you got a monkey over there. Yeah, yeah, I don't think he's really got a monkey there, you guys. Question number four. After five films and over 15 years, Daniel Craig. is finally walking away from playing James Bond after this most recent film. So here's a bond question for you.

Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig. Which of these is the only Bond who was not born in the United Kingdom? Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig. Each. This is a monkey in the dark board. Because it might be like. Their parents were part of the Royal Air Force. Right, right, right.

Yeah, it's true. Let's see. I feel like if it were Daniel Craig, people would have brought that up as, like, an argument of why it's okay to not have a British. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's great reasoning. Okay, so it's Roger Moray and Pierce Brosnan. Is he Irish? Why did I think he was Irish? Yes.

Oh, Ireland is not part of the United Kingdom. Uh-oh. Oh, dang. Unless he's from northern Ireland. Right. Right, right. All right. Final answer.

Pierce Brosnan. Excellent reasoning, you guys. Yeah, right on, Dana, right on the nose. That's right. Pierce Brosnan, born in Ireland. That's excellent, excellent. Yeah. Sean Connery, born in Scotland.

Daniel Craig, Roger Moore, both born in England. Yeah, well done. All right. So you have now, you have now equaled our monkey's output. You've got two so far, two out of eight. All right. Moving right along. Yeah, we're stroke for stroke here with the monkey.

Okay. put the science hats back on question number five venus jupiter neptune saturn which of these planets is not is not a gas giant i was hoping you weren't going to say like a planet not a real planet venus jupiter neptune saturn three of them are gas giants okay one of them is not jupiter and saturn are big and they're giants so I assume they're gas giants. Pretty sure it's Venus, everybody. Like, it's not, it's, yeah, I mean, it's not a, it's also not very, it's not a giant. If when you look at, when you look at like the relative sizes of the planets, it's like, you got Earth, you got Venus, you know, and you got Mars there too.

And then it's like, boom, Jupiter. And it's like, you can fit one big Jillian Earth into Jupiter. Like, that's what I'm talking about the gas giants. So I'd say it's Venus is not a gas giant. All right. Venus, final answer, sir. Correct. Correct, that is right. Yeah, confidently.

Yeah, Venus. It is a terrestrial planet just like us. It's very similar to Earth in a lot of ways. And in many ways, it is similar to Earth. Yeah. All right. Question six. Musicals, I know, are near and dear to at least.

Yeah. Can we pause for one second and just mark that now we have beaten the monkey? Yeah, you know, I would like to say, you know what? Well done. Fair play to you guys. After just five questions, you've already outscored the monkey. I mean, the monkey is now chain smoking, doing shots of tequila over here. Yeah, he's down on, yeah, he's not happy.

But man, man, can that monkey throw a dart? As I say, question six, musicals are near and dear to, at least some of you guys, I know. The 1960s were a golden period for the Hollywood movie musical. They were not just making money. There were a lot of them. They were getting nominated left and right for a kid. Academy Awards. So let's go to Academy Awards here.

Out of these four, highly successful Hollywood musicals, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, and Hello Dolly. All from the 60s. Which of these movies did not

win the Academy Award for Best Picture? Wow. All of the others did. West Side Story, 1961, My Fair Lady, 1964, The Sound of Music, 1965, Hello Dolly, 1969. Who was the odd one out? Hello Dolly is not a good film.

It is not a good or compelling. Yeah, and also it's a little bit later, right? Like maybe tastes were changing. Like that is the latest one, right? You gave us the years. That's correct. That's right. Yeah, we span from 61 to 69.

That's right. down to music for sure won. I believe so. West Side Story, I think, did. Yes, I mean, Hello Dolly. There's no plot to Hello Dolly. It is not aged as well as yet. Academy Awards don't always pick the best movie.

I don't know if you've noticed this. It's true. I feel like we kind of have to go with the one that we feel is the weakest, even though that isn't necessarily the game. You know what I mean? Okay, let's do Hello Dolly. All right. All right. Well, I got to warn you guys here. Shocking, shocking developments in the monkey lane.

The monkey got this one right. So you guys really need to keep pace here. Hey, it's random. I mean, you know, he's not always going to get just one out of four. But luckily, you also got this correct. It is Hello Dolly. Yeah. Hello, Dolly.

Yeah, did not win. Yeah. And you guys are absolutely right. I, you know, I did kind of go back. I was watching clips of these. Hello, Dolly is a funky one. Hello, Dolly is, it's, I mean, to cast Walter Mathau as your romantic lead, you know, essentially is just, it's a bold, it's a bold

decision. And they get to the end and she's just like, I'm going to marry Walter Mathau. And it's like he's the most unlikable person in this entire film. Was it nominated for the Academy Award? Yes, it was. Oh. You guys. It could have won. It could have absolutely. You know, if I had to guess, I'd say it's 1969, taster changing. The movie was going out of vogue. But the other three were just too strong. Just, they are just excellent. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. Okay, good job, guys. We're at 50% correct here, and we still have two questions left. All right. Okay. Question seven, geography. This is the kind of question where, if we're at Pub Quiz, Karen, we'll often bust out a quick little sketch of the world on the back of the quiz sheet.

All right. All right. All right. Of these four countries, these four countries, Switzerland, Ethiopia, Iraq, Bolivia, which is not, is not a landlocked country. Okay. Switzerland. Ethiopia, Iraq, Bolivia.

And I will trust you to work only from your memory here. Not to pull any books off the shelf behind you. When have we ever cheated at good job. Yeah, we don't. Define cheat. Define cheat. It's been 10 years. Switzerland is landlocked, right?

Yeah. Ethiopia is for sure landlocked. what are the other i rock i rock like is there a little corner of it next to the what's the what's the fourth what's the fourth choice bolivia bolivia oh ethiopia iraq bolivia think of where bolivia is touches peru touches brazil oh wait it touches peru and brazil touchs peru touches paraguay it's gotta be iraq yeah i think it's iraq might touch like the gulf like bits of it might touch the gulf okay all right sure okay all right you guys once again you got it and you nailed it that's right it is it is iraq and iraq does have uh it does uh open up out

out onto the persian gulf uh not a huge not a huge huge huge run of uh access to the gulf there but it does yeah good job brain not a lot of beach front property yeah that's right all right okay last one let's close it out here with an animal question feels appropriate for good job brain Either that or poop or animal poop, I suppose, but it is not. No poop in this one. Just animals. North America. North America.

It's where we live. It's a good continent. Yeah. One of my top seven. We may not be on par with Australia in terms of notable fauna, but there are some notable animals that are native to North America. Maybe they come from other places. Maybe they've gone to other places.

Of these animals, the raccoon, the coyote, the wild turkey, and the wild boar, which is the only one not native to North America. Turkey is native because Ben Franklin wanted to be the national bird. I feel like coyote. Coyote, I think, is native. Wild boar and what's the other one? Raccoon, coyote, wild turkey, wild boar. I think it's the boar.

I know, Pumba's from Africa. He's a wart hog. Oh, do we, are there, I think, yeah, Europe has a lot of boars, but I don't, we don't have a lot of boars here. Okay, sounds like we're leading towards wild boar then. Yeah, wild boar. Wow. Once again, I'm really proud of you guys. You worked it through.

You got it. Wild boar is the only one not native to North America. Yeah, that's right. Well, good job. You guys, you guys handily beat the monkey, by the way, six to three. So, well done. Well done. 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. All right. It's time for our last segment here. So you guys, I have a new hobby. I always have a new hobby, but my new new, my new new hobby, taking wood shop. and I'll show you a spoon I made. It was like a block of wood.

I carved it this week, project number one in which I made a real thing. I made a real spoon and I sanded it and I cut it on the bandside. I did all the things. I was like, oh, I'm becoming less and less relatable as I get older. I'm becoming more specific and weird. So in the spirit of that, I made a quiz for you guys about trees. All right. I did learn a lot of really interesting wood facts,

but it's only just like, and then another cool thing about trees is this? And then another cool. I'm in that mode. I was like, oh, this isn't that cool? So this quiz is about, I'm calling tree people. So all of the answers to this quiz are all, the whole theme of this quiz is wood or trees.

get your barnyard buzzers ready we'll start we'll start I think with the softball we'll see Treebeard is the name of a fictional character in which classic fantasy series Karen Lord of the Rings

that's right Lord of the Rings he's an inch I think the oldest living creature in that world oh so this actor with a tree related name starred in the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy he was a top line star and he has a tree related name. Oh, jeez. Yeah.

Who is in that movie? Oh. Oh. Oh. Chris. Elijah Wood? Elijah Wood. Yeah, I was like Orlando Bloom. No, Elijah Wood. Right. Right. Yeah. You know, in addition to Orlando Bloom, there's also Sean Bean. And I was like, but that's not a tree. Sean Leggum, you mean? Exactly. It's not a true nut. Not a true nut.

Which Scandinavia musicians' name means birch tree? This type of tree also happens to be the most common native tree in Iceland. Oh. Chris. It's got to be Bjork. Yeah. Bjork means birch. Oh, nice.

I did not know that. I did not know that. Yeah. In Greek mythology, what is the name for the tree nymph? There are different kinds of nymphs in Greek mythology. Oh, what is the name? I think I heard the rooster first. It's me.

Dryad. Dryad. Oh, yes. Do you know the one for a water? The Nyads? Nyads is the water. Yeah. I know this because of Secret of Mana available now for your Super Nintendo

Entertainment System. It comes up. It comes up. Dryad comes from Greek for oak tree. Oh, that'd be a good word. Myrtle answer word, dryad. That would be hard. They wouldn't, though.

The wordles are all, because the wordal, it's all hand-selected to be like common words. Oh, I see it. That's tricky. This beloved fictional character's name translates from Italian to pine eye. Really? Oh. Colin. Oh, oh, oh.

Is that Pinocchio? It's Pinocchio. Yeah. Pin and Olk. Yeah. That makes so much sense. Yeah. I feel like, I feel like we've been missing out on this pun that Italian speakers have been getting for generations. I know. What is the name of one of the four Hollywood chrises who got a start in the Princess Diaries to Royal Engagement? Say Karen. Chris Pine. Chris Pine. Of Genovia. Yes. Van Disa will report.

prize his role as this tree person in the upcoming Thor, Love, and Thunder. Oh. Karen. Groot. Yeah. This singer, dancer, actor, talk show host, and kid of famous people was recently named to Forbes's 20-22 list of 30 under 30. Singer, dancer, actor, talk show host.

Kid of famous people. Famous people. She's 30-under-30 right now. So she's under 30. Then she's a talk show host. Kate Hudson. Who's it under 30 talk show host? Okay.

So her dad is a musician and an actor. Her mother is also a musician and an actor, but more an actor than a musician. And her dad is maybe 50-50. Oh, okay. So then the talk show she's on is with her mom. What? Yeah.

I know. Oh. Oh, I got to have a lot. I got it. It's okay, everybody. I figured it out. It is Willow Smith. Yes. Red table. I almost want to leave it there. I have one more question. It's maybe hard. It might be hard. We'll see. We'll do it. We'll do it anyway. He was the first African-American player to win the U.S. Open Singles Championship and the Wimbledon Singles title. Oh, Colin. I believe that was Arthur Ash, yeah? Arthur Ash.

Good job, you guys. Tree people. Yeah, all right. And that's our show. Thank you guys for joining me. And thank you guys, listeners, for listening in. Hope you learn stuff about Shakespeare, about trees, about monkeys, I guess, and about March. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and on all podcast apps.

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