Good Job, Brain! - 245: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #49

Episode Date: March 14, 2023

Trivia is blooming, and the facts are emerging from the cold winter ground. Happy Spring 2023 season, and let's lush this place up with quizzes galore! Come meet our special quizmaster guest: ChatGPT! With some guidance from Colin, our new friend has written a quiz all about artificial intelligence domination. Take Chris' "Super Sugar Anything" challenge if you know your consumer product names. And it's time to blast some grunge and help Karen settle into her new home state with a quiz all about movies and shows set in the very moody and very rainy Pacific Northwest. ALSO: fabrics quiz, Atari 50, Baby Boomer Trivial Pursuit Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries: [e-mail] Listener survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Well, well, welcome well-doers and well-wishers in wellies. This is Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. Today shows episode 245. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen. and we are your gleeful, glowing, and glamorous, glandular gladiators. I'm Colin. And I'm Chris.

Welcome, everybody. It is a new season, spring, 2023. We made it through another new year. And happy 11th birthday to us since episode one of this very show. Listeners, you might not hear the difference, but there is a very, very big difference. even though we're recording this remotely and have been for a while but yeah we're kind of within

10 miles of each other but now I am way more than 10 miles I am now located in Washington State Emerald City Seattle it's really hard to believe I can't I still feel like we're all together here in California you're such a Berkeley person today is

day five in Seattle for me we don't have any of our stuff because our movers got delayed I eat cereal out of a class collapsible dog bowl that shows you how dire things are. But show must go on. At least I have my mic, my computer, and I got my buzzer. I brought it with me.

Time for our first general trivia segment. Pop quiz. Hot shot. All right, everybody, get out your barnyard buzzers. We're going to buzz in. So in the big event of moving, I found our old 20-pound box. of a card that a listener

once mailed to me it is so heavy I have these cards these cards are just from random versions of Trivial Pursuit yeah these are gold I like that you don't have proper dishes to eat out of but you've got the 20 pound

box of Trivial Pursuit cards that's our that's our Karen we're going to do two cards today oh and the themes are baby Boomer Trivial Pursuit card

And we have a trivial pursuit Pop Culture 2 Hopefully two ends of the spectrum We'll see Let's ease into things With pop culture

Two I'm not I'm not sure It's going to be that much easier Okay Blue Edge for TV What Teen Drama

Set in Capeside Massachusetts is filmed in Wilmington North Carolina Oh my gosh Colin with the horse buzzer. Is that Dawson's Creek? It is Dawson's Creek.

I don't want to wait. Pink Wedge for Fad. What Pitchman turned late-night TV viewers onto the inside-the-shell egg scrambler. Oh my gosh. Oh, okay. Chris. Okay, I'm going to guess Ron Popil. Yes, it is Ron Papil.

Okay. So what is this inside the shell scramble? egg scrambler. It's a device that takes the egg and it shakes it all up. And so it's completely homogenized inside of there. So then when you crack the egg, it just comes out as like, looking like egg beans, basically. Oh, okay. It's like a solution in search of a problem. Exactly. Exactly. In the biggest way. Yellow Wedge for Buzz, what U.S. presidential candidate slap the slogan, yes, America can on a campaign. bus manufactured in Canada.

Okay. U.S. presidential candidate, is that what it said? Yes. U.S. presidential candidate slapped the slogan, yes America can. On a campaign bus manufactured in Canada.

Chris. Who knows? Michael Dukakis. Incorrect. Colin. Ross Perot. It is actually a candidate turned president. It is George W.

Bush. Okay. All right. All right. Oh, this is dirty. We are a family show. Well, it's suggestive. It's suggestive.

It's suggestive. It's trivial pursuit. It is. Yeah, they have their guardrails. All right. Purple Wedge for Music. What British Metal Band gave the world albums titled Point of Entry, Ram it Down and Jugulator?

Oh, my gosh. Oh, man. I'm scandalized. British metal If you can name one, Colin. Uh, Judas Priest. Yeah, correct.

Yeah, okay. All right. All right, Green Wedge for movies. What film gave Mark Wahlberg a chance to bark the line? Shut up. That goes for all species. Oh my gosh. What was, is it, was it Ted?

Was that the teddy bear one? No. It's not, uh, we bought a zoo. It's messing. Oh, you're going to kick yourself. It is. Oh, man. Planet of the Apes.

Right. Okay. I'm thinking more cute and cuddly animals. Right. Yeah, yeah. All right. Last question. S&G sports and games, I'm guessing.

What auto team took Formula One's first back-to-back titles in 48 years when Michael Schumacher won the crown in 2001? Colin. Uh. Ferrari. Correct. Ferrari. Yeah. All right.

That was one of those I could name a Formula One team. That's, I mean, I'm literally sitting over here. Like, cars got teams? I don't know. Lightning McQueen. Right, right, right. I'm just picturing like a relay race now, you know. Oh, they have races for cars now.

A baton. Yeah. All right. Well, get ready. Here is a special bonus. a pop quiz hot job for today. Baby boomer edition. Chris is going to run this card.

Chris is going to run this. I'm so old. I'm so old. Let's go. Okay. TV. What symbol found on a typewriter was the graphic trademark of the Mike Douglas show?

Oh my gosh. Wow. I'm looking at my keyboard here. Again. It's got to be one of these. What symbol? Correct is one of them. What symbol found?

on a typewriter was the graphic trademark of the Mike Douglas show, Chris. Asterix. Correct. I don't know why. You're booming it. SS, social studies, maybe. Okay, silver screen.

Sorry, silver screen. Okay. What Broadway success featured the characters, Rebecca Nurse, John Proctor, Abigail, and a judge named Danforth. Whoa, do you guys both know? Yes, absolutely. Middle school.

It's the Crucible. Sir Arthur Miller. He's a sir? I don't know. Yellow Wedge. Really good job so far. How many years in prison was James Earl Ray sentenced to in 1969? Chris.

20. Incorrect. I mean, it's got to be. It's got a. Oh, 70, 75, I don't know. A hundred. 99. Oh, my gosh.

Okay. All right, okay. Tanwitch for publications. What co-founder of the National Organization for Women wrote a magazine piece on the pill called the Moral Disarmament of Betty Coed? That is Chris. If it's not Gloria Steinem, I don't know who it is. It is Gloria Steinem, correct. Yes. Green Wedge literature. Is Pat Boone any relation to frontiersman Daniel Boone?

Let's each say an answer. All right. I will say yes. Otherwise, it's a who cares question. I will also say yes just because of the whole like, you know, you go back far enough, somebody will have so many descendants. Right. You know what I mean? It's like, oh, this person is my great, great, great, great grandfather. 11th cousin, you and these, all these other people. So I'm going to say any relation. I'm going to say yes, definitely. You guys are both correct. It is yes.

They are related. Last question, RPM, which I think is a record question. Who struck big with italics? A white sport coat and a pink carnation in 1957. Oh my gosh. I've heard this. A white sport coat and a pink carnation. Is it Pat Boone?

I'm not going to be lucky enough for it to be Pat Boone, huh? You know what? I don't think we're going to run this one, but I mean... Go for it. Frank Sinatra. It is Marty Robbins. Okay. All right. Well, okay, boomer.

All right. Yeah, exactly. Well, good job, everybody. Yeah, that was good. That was good. All right. Today's episode is 245. Usually in an episode of Good Job Brain, we have themes and we have topics for each episode and we come up with our own quizzes or segments or cool facts around that theme. But every fifth episode, it's kind of a free-for-all.

We have no theme, and it's all quizzes. We've all prepared challenges to stump each other and stump you guys' listeners. So today it is all quiz number 49. Okay, let me get us all start. started off with a fun one very good job brainy type quiz is titled colin always has titles for his quizzes so i feel like i should have a title for this one i'm titling this quiz super sugar anything so i don't know if we ever told this story on the podcast before but i just love this line now as a parent i want to tell this this i'll i'll tell this story again as i remember it is that

um there was a cereal uh that is now known as uh golden crisp but back in the day it was known as super sugar crisp and they this is that they'd advertise this on television and Colin and his sister saw the commercial for super sugar crisp and they're like oh my god and ran to their mom and said mom can you get a super sugar crisp and she immediately responded I'm not getting you super sugar anything you got it that's right which as a dad now I think that's such a perfect you know turnaround. And of course, a lot of parents eventually sort of came to realize that they did not want super sugar anything. And so that the names of these things, first it changed to just regular sugar crisp, just trying to let people know that they maybe tone it down a little bit.

Let's step it down. And then finally to Golden Crisp, but so many cereals at this time did a similar thing because, I mean, sugar checks, sugar checks, sugar pops are now corn pops, famously sugar frosted flakes and I was called frosted flakes or now known as honey smacks used to be sugar smacks there was this whole thing where everything was sugar cereal

and so that alone does not a quiz make but I wanted this inspired me to talk about products that changed their name at some point during their life cycle so it's a simple quiz grab your barnyard buzzers

and get ready to buzz into the answers to some of these questions about products that were known by something and we're not, we're now known by something else. Okay, which is the one I wanted to start with. Okay, here we go. It's a great one. This hygiene product was originally known as Baby Gays. Oh, oh. Colin. That is Q-Tips, I believe.

That is the humble Q-Tip, yes. It's called was originally known as Baby Gays. G-A. Y-S. Oh, I thought I meant, like. like a baby gazing, like staring at you. No, not the male gaze. The baby gaze. They changed it to Q-tips. The Q stands for quality.

So when you're shoving those in your ear, no, no, that you're shoving quality in there. Question number two. This popular beverage advertised as a relief for dyspepsia was originally known as Brad's drink. That was Karen first. Pepsi Cola. Pepsi Cola.

It was invented in 1893 by Caleb Bradham, who I guess was known to his friends as Brad. He called it Brad's drink. Brad's drink. Can you imagine? It sounds like something that a college freshman makes for you at a party that you definitely don't want to drink. What's in it? Yeah, Everclear and NyQuil. It's Bradstrain.

It was advertised really for upset stomach indigestion, which was that time was popularly known as dyspepsia. And so then he changed it to Pepsi. So in the sticking around a few years later in the 1920s, guy named Edwin Perkins produced a liquid concentrate that he called Fruit Smack. And then he was able to figure out a way to remove the liquid from this concentrate, leaving only a fun.

fine powder, which he called this. Karen? Fun dip? It's not fun dip. It's not fun dip. Is it Kool-Aid? It is Kool-Aid. It is Kool-Aid.

Which originally was spelled Kool-A-E, like A-D-E, as in like, you know, lemonade, but it's now spelled A-I-D, like Band-Aid. I don't know why. Yeah, interesting. Eats me. Yeah, that makes a reason.

Question for the Whammo Company originally called this invention a Pluto platter. Colin? That has got to be the Frisbee. It is the Frisbee. It is the Frisbee. It's interesting because, I mean, everybody agrees that there was that pie company in Massachusetts called the Friskey's Pi Company. But like what people seem to think happened is that they created like the plastic flying disc.

You know, they called it the Pluto platter. but then the kids in that area called it a frisbee because of the because of the game of throwing the pie pans around and then they renamed it to frisbee but yeah the pluto platter originally how about that the poo-poo platter the poo platter question five this breakfast food was originally known as the portmanteau word froffles I'm sorry just in case you didn't hear me this breakfast food

was originally known by the portmanteau word frothels Froffles What you think I said Like frothing F-R-O-F-F-F-L-E-S Froffles

Ego It's Ego It's Ego So the Ego was originally a mayonnaise that this company made. They called it Ego because they put so many eggs in it.

But then that was just their very popular brand name like generally for the company. So they bring out Ego. They called them froffles. The Portmanteau throws in waffles. Ruffles! From the makers of Ego.

Yeah, from the makers of Ego, the Egyest Mayo. And then they just started calling those Ego brand waffles also because Ego just became very popular, strong branding. You know what? Chris, you, you,

have just scratched an itch that I didn't know that I've had for like 30 years. Oh, like, why is it called ego? I just, I just always assumed, like, I don't know, maybe they were the first one to use egg or something. I don't know. Right, right, right. That is actually so satisfied. I need to check if there are indeed eggs.

Or are there eggs in ego? Yeah. I mean, even if they are, it wouldn't make them special. It does say it contains wheat, milk, egg, and soy ingredients. Okay. Okay. Right. Yeah. Next, next question. Question number six. Rather than give you the original name, I'm just going to see if you know this one. By what name were Cheerios originally? Oh, I've read this before. I don't know. I'm going to be so angry when you say it. Yeah. Yeah. I... We can brainstorm this, Colin. I wonder if it's like a really boring name or if it's like a too outrageous name. Oh, well, they're made with oats. We know that. Cheery oats?

Oh, cheery oats? That's good, Karen. I like that. It is cheery oats. Well done. They were originally known as chiri oats. Yep, yep. I think that after a few years, they were just like,

Cheerio's sounds better. Also, they're in O's. They're in the shape of an O. It's true. It's true. Next question. This well-known web services provider was originally known as Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web.

Oh, okay. Aaron. Jerry Yang, Yahoo. Yes, it is Yahoo. Sticking with tech companies, what a tech company's main product was originally known as backrub for the way it analyzed backlinks. Oh, what? Colin?

Google. Yes, yes. Sorry, I guess the company. isn't called Google anymore, but the, yeah, yeah, the original name of the Google search engine was backrug because if it's, because of its innovative way of, you know, ranking websites by the websites that backed that linked back to them or back. Right. Interesting. They called it backrub that did not stick around very long. Sounds creepy. Yeah. Yep. And this is, and not creepy in the, in the sort of like, it was 1923 kind of way. And creepy in the sort of like it was the, you know, the 90s

Like somebody should have known better So here's another question for you What brand switched names in 2021 And is now called Pearl Milling Company Oh, why does this What famous brand switched its name in 2021 Now called Pearl Milling Company Karen Uncle Ben

You're close Oh oh oh it was Is it is it Antchol It is Aunt Jemima. It is Ant Jemima. I believe they're changing the name of Uncle Ben's also, and that may be coming up. But yes, Ant Jemima, the character is being retired and it's now called Pearl Milling Company. That was actually the name of the original company that came up with the Antimima brand in the first. All right. Here's one for you. These three young ladies were originally known as the whoop-ass girls. This trio of a fiction, I'm going to tell you, fictional characters, fictional characters, originally known as the whoop-ass girls, Colin. Is it the Powerpuff girls? It is the Powerpuff girls.

In the original, like, animated short that was done, they were the whoop-ass girls. And when they decided, oh, we're going to make this into a TV show for children, that name did not exactly fly. Oh, was it originally not for children? Because, well, no, it was originally done by a Cal Arts student. And it's like the, it was the same sort of backstory as like they were being created in the lab. But then he added, it makes so much more sense now, he added a can of whoopass. The scientist made them. Yes.

Into the, okay. Yes, exactly. Yes. A couple of questions left for you guys. Bib label, litheated lemon lime soda was the original mouthful of in him for this product. Colin. The lithium just made a light go off. Is that seven up? I feel like something. It is seven up. Oh. You still have lithium in it. Sure. You know, not everything can have cocaine in it. You got to moderate the cocaine with a little lithium from time. You got to, exactly. You got to, if you're going to make a carbonated drink and it's the 1800s, you have to put some drug in it, but it's got to be a drug that somebody else isn't using. Exactly. Yep.

Okay, fans of this candy bar in the United Kingdom were outraged when they changed its name to match the U.S. version, which is called Snickers. Karen. Marathon. Oh. Karen knows her foreign candy back to front. So which one came first? Was like Snickers first and then introduced as Marathon?

I believe that Snickers came first because it was only in the UK that it was called Marathon. Please don't write to me if it was going to another country as well. But generally, it was United... I wonder if it was like a cop. Like, they couldn't get the name. Maybe. Or maybe it sounded too much like knickers. Right.

That's true. And it was like all about like, oh, this is a candy bar for energy. It's a marathon. It keeps you going, yeah. Yep, because it has those peanuts. That's what makes it different than the Milky Way doesn't do a thing for you. But you eat the Snickers with the three peanuts in there. And those...

That's fine. Fill you up. More outrage in the United Kingdom. When this product's name was changed to, I can't believe it's so good for everything. I can't believe it's not butter. What if it's just butter? All right.

Nobody is buzzed in here. Oh, sorry, sorry. Yeah, you're right. I have not committed. We're just in shock of the, yeah. I'm going to say, I can't believe it's not butter. Yes. I can't, they did not, yes, they did not change the name of butter, but they did change the name of, I can't believe it's not butter to, I can't believe it's so good for everything.

Was this like a temporary like marketing blitz or something? Yeah, I thought it was intended to be an absolutely, was going to be a permanent change. Oh my gosh. But it was so reviled that they, that they changed it back. All right. One more question. If I was a time, Traveler from 1870, and I asked you to please go to the general store and pick me up a container of Wonder Jelly with what product would you want to return from the store with? Karen. Vaseline. Vaseline? Yes.

Well done. Originally known as Wonder Jelly. Now, did you know that? Yeah. Wonder Jelly is confusing. because it also sounds like a food. Right. It does sound like something you would put on,

you put it on Wonder Bread, you know? Yeah. Some Wonder Bread with Wonder Jell. Oh, my God. Yep. It's like, I wonder why I'm in the hospital. Jeez. Year by year, the dad jokes just,

they just get stronger. It's exponential. Yeah. They're too powerful. I can't hold off any longer. Oh, man. All right. Thank you, Chris.

Woo. Well, Colin, you have a special quiz. I do. I do. And you know my trademark phrase is, I had a lot of fun putting this quiz together. And I really did. I am never lying to you both. But there is a very special.

twist on this quiz that I put together. I had some help from a computerized friend, and I am not referring to Elvis. This is not a music quiz. For the first time in our show's history, I got some help from a chat bot. And specifically, of course, you guys can probably see where I'm going at this point. I got some help from chat GPT. The listeners at this point are probably having one of three reactions, which is, oh, cool, another chat GPT story. I love. these or oh man another chat gpt story i don't know or i have no idea what you're talking about what is a chat gpt what do you guys want to when do you guys want to give like a thumbnail description here how would how would you describe it to somebody who has never heard of chat gpt in the most

basic terms there's a bot that pretty much is trained to generate writing and it learned from so many sources, books, code, movie scripts, songs. The Internet. The Internet. One of the great, like, novel kind of breakthrough fun uses, certainly if you're anywhere in social media, is, you know, give me this in the style of that. And it's seemingly endless combinations, and it is game. Like, if you ask it to read the Constitution, you know, in the style of Jar Jar Binks,

It will absolutely, it is up for it. It will do it for you. I saw it past the bar. Right, yes. So I decided to work with my colleague, Chet, GPT. Your intern. Yeah. To assemble a quiz for our show.

I felt like I was its editor. And Chris, I know you've been an editor. You've been edited. And I tried to take this stance that the editor's job is to make the writer look good. Every word that you hear of this quiz I'm about to present was generated by, Chat GPT. I did not rewrite. I did not copy edit. I didn't. All I did was I asked it leading questions and I tried to sort of engage in a dialogue with it. I ran into some really interesting twists along the way. So I have a 10 question quiz. Here is the original prompt that I typed into

chat. GPT. This is the prompt. Word for word. Create a 10 question trivia quiz about famous depictions of AI in movies, comics, literature, or on television. The questions should be moderately difficult, but not beyond the reach of someone well-versed in pop culture. Wow. That's good, specific. The grim joke maybe is that, you know, our jobs are not going to be replaced, but just our jobs are now going to become writing prompts for the AI.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It generated 10 questions very quickly. I had to say it did a great job. I did have to tweak, I had to work with it on about half the questions. But really just to help it avoid ambiguity or maybe a slight kind of correction. But it did a fantastic job. So here we go.

We're going to dive into a quiz. Get your barnyard buzzers ready. Hold on. It didn't give you the answers, though. So I asked it to generate the questions, and it did. It gave me 10 questions. And I'm like, oh, these are really good. I was like, oh, wait, can you also please provide the answers?

And it did not, it didn't give me the answers the first time. So I had to ask it a second question. Oh, I see. Okay. Yeah. Once I did that, it caught on. And so in subsequent revisions of the questions, it would provide the answer with the question.

I didn't have to tell it to do that again. Okay. Another question. Yeah. Are the answers that it provided correct? Do you know what I mean? Like, did you have to double check if, you know, are we trying to guess what the answer that the bot is giving?

I worked with it to make it a good quiz. So, but I, I'll follow up with you guys after the quiz and give you some of the little interesting points here in my collaboration. Okay. Ooh. Ten question trivia quiz.

Famous depictions of AI, movies, comics, literature, and television. Here we go. Get your barnyard buzzers ready. Number one. In the 1982 film Blade Runner, what was the name of one of the sentient androids or replicants? Oh, geez.

Karen. Rachel. I will accept Rachel. Yes, that's right. Yes. Chris, do you want to name another one here? Roy Batty. There you go.

Roy Batty. Yeah. Yep, Pris. Yep, yep. Also accept Leon Kowalski. And, of course, you'd have to accept Deccard, right? Director's cut. I asked Chat GPT.

I said, and Zora, of course. I asked Chat Chapti, I said, was Deckerd a replicant? And here's what it said. The question of Decker's own identity and whether or not, he is a replicant himself is the central theme and point of ambiguity in the film. Number two, who portrayed the android character, Bishop, in the 1986 film Aliens? Ooh, ah, no, no, I'm thinking of the later sequels, which was Michael Fastbender, but this is the original. Well, this is the middle one, right, yeah, not Ash, this is Bishop, right?

in the, it was actor, I'll read them exactly as written. The Android character, Bishop, was portrayed by actor Lance Henriksen. Again, the answer is also written by a chat GPT here. I did not, I did not edit these. All right, number three, in the movie The Terminator, what was the name of the AI system that became self-aware and attempted to exterminate humanity? Everybody.

Skynet. Skynet. The AI system in The Terminator that became self-aware and attempted to exterminate humanity was named Skynet. Correct. Okay, just as long as chat, GPT, didn't add hashtag goals after that answer. I'm okay with that. Yeah, it doesn't, it's not emoji aware yet, at least in my chat. It could do emojis.

Yeah, you know what? As soon as I said that I was like, I bet if I asked it to it would have done emojis. You can prompt it, yeah. Sure, of course. Of course I did. Of course. Dude, give me Jar JARBinks's monologue and the style of emoji. Number four, what was the name of the robot in the film Short Circuit?

Oh! Ooh, close, but I think Chris there. I'm going to give that one to Chris. Johnny Five. The robot in short circuit was named Johnny Five, correct. Who's Johnny? Number five. And I had to work with it on this.

question a little bit. We'll come back to this one. But number five, here's the final result. Who wrote the novel, I-Robot? And what was the name of the detective who solved crimes with the help of a robot in the book? That is two questions, Chad GPD. Yeah, I like how it kind of improvised. Oh, it gave you a two-parter. It on its own generated a two-parter, which I thought was interesting. This is something we actually do, which is we would ask a question that is kind of easy to get, and then you follow it up with a more deep cut one, which is very human. That's how I interpret it. That's that, that's exactly how I interpret it. The answer is Isaac Asimov and Will Smith. Okay. And here's what Chad CheapT said. Hmm. Isaac Asimov and detective Elijah Bailey.

So now the, the Will, the Will Smith movie is very extremely loosely, loosely. It really, it really has almost no connection to the book other than just maybe generally the title and some general themes but yeah so now here's what's interesting when chat gpt first asked me the question the answer was detective del spooner now which was the name of the will smith character

in the movie so i had to work with chat gpt to kind of arrive at the correct answer so here's what i said i said to chat gpt i typed back i think del spooner was a character in the movie i robot and not a character in the

book of the same name. Do you agree? I'm really trying to engage in the Socratic method here with the with chat GPT. And so it said immediately, yes, you are correct. Del Spooner is a character in the 2004 film I-Robot, which was based on Isaac Asimov science fiction series. Spooner is portrayed by Will Smith, et cetera, et cetera. The original Isaac Asimov book features different characters and does not include Spooner. I apologize for the mistake in the previous answer. it's polite number six in the comic book series the transformers what was the name of the evil artificial intelligence that led the decepticons oh oh oh comic look oh geez give it a little bit of leeway here give it a little bit of leeway on this sure i mean it could be just the antagonist

of the megatron there you go it's looking for mega yeah the evil artificial intelligence that led the Decepticons in the comic book series, The Transformers, was named Megatron. And so here's an interesting where it got tripped up a little bit that it's true that there was a Transformers comic book series, but the way it's phrased, it's almost as if it's ignorant that when you say the Transformers, almost all of us are going to think of either or both the TV series or the movie, you know, and not, our minds are not going to go to the comic book first. Number seven, in the series Star Trek the next generation what was the name of the sentient artificial intelligence

who served as a key member of the crew on the USS Enterprise D everyone together data that's a lengthy question that is a very lengthy question and I had to work with that one a little bit its first formulation of the question was in the series Star Trek next generation

what was the name of the sentient artificial intelligence that controlled the USS Enterprise D? And so I had to work with it. I'm like, what was Data's role? I'm like, would you say, would you say it's fair to say that data controlled the USS Enterprise D? You're actually in a computer is what you're doing. Yeah.

What a life. I wanted to work with it like it was a person. And like if this was a person that I had hired to write a quiz, this is how I would do it. Number eight, who wrote the novel, Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep That was later adapted into the film Blade Runner Chris on the buzz of there

Philip K. Dick The novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was written by Philip K. Dick, yes, good old PKD. Number nine, what was the name of the AI system in the film War Games? Oh! This is a good one. This is a good trivia question. Yeah.

It's five letters. It's four letters. Four letters. It is an acronym. The AI system in the film War Games was named Wopper. Wopr. Wopper. I asked Chat G-P-T.

I said, what does Wopper stand for? War Operation Plan Response. All right. Last one. Number 10. In the 1978 television series Battlestar Galactica, what was the name of the art? artificial intelligence that controlled the robotic sylons.

Oh. Oh, Chris, do you remember? I wonder if it's in the new series, too. It's not. It's not. Okay, okay. No, we don't know. It's subtly different.

Right. It is, and I had to work with ChatGPT on this one a little bit. It is the imperious leader. Imperious leader. Oh. So I had to work with that one a little bit because the first question that had asked me was in the series Battlestar Galactica, what was the name? And so right off the bat, I'm like, that's bad trivia question because any trivia nerd

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time we think you're going to love the data over dogma podcast wherever you subscribe to awesome shows you're listening to good job brain smooth puzzles smart trivia good job brain So my turn, it was quite the adventure to move up here. So we drove north of California through Oregon and into Washington. And I got to see snow. I got to see slowly, you know, kind of the gradient getting into the Pacific Northwest, the P.N. Dove, very atmospheric, very moody. There's forests, there's city, there's rain, there's fog, there's snow.

And so I have prepared a quiz, a write-down quiz here, about movies and TV shows set in the Pacific Northwest. All right, all right. It is because of atmospheric moodiness of this region that really kind of sets the scene and paints the picture for a lot of stories. So yes, 10 questions here featuring some of Colin's real-life friends in this question. quiz, and you'll see what I mean. All right. Yeah, we got forests, we got beaches, we got port cities, we got shipyards. Here we go.

Write down quiz number one. Netflix debuted and then canceled one season of a comedy show starring Collins' childhood friend Randall Park. The titular subject of the show is actually located in Bend, Oregon. What is the name of this show? Oh. I'll read it again as you guys are writing it down. Netflix debuted and then canceled one season of a comedy show

starring Collins' childhood friend, Randall Park. High school friend. Childhood, yeah. The titular subject. Sixth grade through high school. Yeah. The titular subject of this show is actually located in Bend, Oregon. What is the name of the show?

Answers up, please. Chris put blockbuster. and Colin said blockbuster video correct there's another blockbuster that closed down I think was in Alaska so that was I heard about that one so that one closing down and another one in Australia closing down makes this one in Ben Oregon the the the last one and people make pilgrimages there right I mean yes anytime you take a trip or you're visiting somewhere new listeners and in Chris and Colin go on Atlas Obscira it's tells you like weird landmarks that's around you.

Yeah. Yeah. Like the tree that owns itself, you know, like weird things or the, the biggest yo-yo and stuff. And so I saw this one in Atlas Obscura. All right. Number two, in this rom-com, the main characters don't meet until the last two minutes of the film. Oh.

In what rom-com, the main characters don't meet until the last two minutes of the film. Again, these are movies and TV set in the Pacific Northwest. All right, answers up. Please, Chris says, Sleepless in Seattle. Colin says sleepless in Seattle. Correct, it is sleepless in Seattle. Very interesting for rom-coms, what they call a meat cute.

And the whole premise of this movie is their meat cute doesn't even happen until the very end of the movie. I'm not sure I have ever seen Sleepless in Seattle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, not like I have anything against it. It just, it's, it just, you know, just, I just never happen to just have my world aligned correctly to see it. Ooh, that's very good.

All right, here we go. We pass by this in person. The Timberline Lodge located in Mount Hood, Oregon is a real life hotel that served as the exterior of what infamous snowy fake movie hotel once again the Timberline Lodge

in Mount Hood, Oregon is a real-life functioning hotel. Of course. That served as the exterior of what infamous snowy fake movie hotel. Sorry, you need the name of the hotel? Name of the hotel, please. Oh, Chris has it. Chris has it.

Yeah. The Overlook The Outlook. The Microsoft Outlook Hotel. Correct. Overlook Hotel from the famous Stephen King story turned movie The Shining. Number four, despite prominently showing Seattle Space Needle from a window, what TV show that's set in Seattle only had one episode actually filmed in Seattle? Despite prominently showing Seattle Space Needle from a window,

what TV show that's set in Seattle only actually had one episode technically filmed in Seattle. Okay, okay. Answers up, Chris put Frasier, Colin put, Frasier. Correct, it is Frasier. Everything else was, the whole show was filmed in L.A. Yeah, in the studio. Number five, one of the biggest devise. in the 2000s is whether you're on Team Edward or Team Jacob from the Twilight series,

famously set in Washington State. Edward is played by Robert Pattinson in the Twilight movies. What actor played Jacob? Oh, what's this guy's name? Oh, man. One of the biggest divides in the 2000s is whether you're on Team Edward or Team Jacob from the Twilight series, famously set in Washington State.

Edward is played by Batman, Robert Pattinson. What actor played Jacob? All right, answers up. You guys, Chris Putt, Mr. Dawson, last name, Creek. Colin has the correct answer. It is Taylor Lautner. Wow. That's why we're a team, folks.

Why we're a team. Fun fact, Taylor Lautner dated Taylor Swift. So he had two tailors. Another fun fact, Taylor Lottner's wife is also named Taylor. And she took on his last name after they got married. So they are both Taylor Lottner's. Brilliant. Was it Dana who called him Little Wolf Boy?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, Little Wolf Boy. Number six, recently, actually, I think just a couple weeks ago, an entrepreneur from Kansas City bought the famous Goonies House in Astoria, Oregon. The Goonies is what the gang of kids call themselves in the movie. How many actors from the Goonies gang have earned Academy Award nominations in their careers? So the film Goonies, namesake for the gang of kids in the film, how many actors from the Goonies gang have earned Academy Award nominations in their careers?

Also, starring another one of Collins' real life acquaintances, Jeff Cohen, who went to, you guys were in the same dorm, right? We were neighbors in the dorms, that's right, at Cal, that's right. If you want a quick refresh, the Goonies gang, two ladies, Andy and Martha Plimpton, and then we got Thanos. Josh Berlin was the older brother brand, of course, starring Sean Aston, the main character. and then we have Corey Feldman as mouth and John Kee Kuan

who's now as Kui Kuan as data Am I missing anybody? Who else is there now? And Chunk, and Chunk. Okay, Chris says the number four. Wow, okay. I mean, Kihui Kwan absolutely got nominated. I figure Sean Ashton probably got nominated for something at some point. Josh Brolin probably got nominated for something at some point.

Colin is correct with three. Really? We have. Kiwi Kwan, of course, and then we have Josh Brolin nominated for milk. Okay, all right. Sean Ashton, not for Lord of the Rings, but actually for he directed a short in 1994 called Kangaroo Court, and he got nominated for Best Short. All right.

Number seven, Miranda Cosgrove stars as the titular character of what TV show about a teenager with her own web show set in Seattle. Miranda Cosgrove. If you want a little hint on who that is, she played summer in School of Rock. All right, answers up. Chris put I Carly. Colin put I Carly.

You are both correct. It is I Carly. They brought it back recently, right? Well, I knew it wasn't Dog with the blog, so I figured it's the... I love Dog with the blog. That was on the Disney channel. He got into blogging at the right time.

You could make a lot of money doing that. Yeah, he's into crypto now. Dogecoin. Okay, number eight, Cat dreams of attending Sarah Lawrence College instead of going to University of Washington, like her dad, in the film, Ten Things I Hate About You, which is based on what classic literary work? Oh. Cat dreams of attending Sarah Lawrence College.

I'm just shouting out my wife who, if I got this question wrong, would physically murder me and dump my body. All right. Well, I've never seen this one. What? It's a good one. It actually is. I know it has a good reputation. Answers up.

Chris, put. Boom. Taming of the shrew and Colin guest taming of the shrew. You are. correct. Great movie. Great movie. Isn't it weird to think that Heath Ledger and Joseph Gordon Levitt, who were both in that movie, went on being in Christopher Nolan Batman movies? Yeah. All right. Number nine, what 1987 comedy about amnesia got a gender-swapped remake in 2018. Wow. What, 1987 comedy about amnesia? I would say romantic comedy, rom-com, about

Amnesia got a gender swapped remake in 2018. The original was set in fictional Elk Grove, Oregon and the remake was set in Seattle. They had a lot of Seahawks stuff. I'll tell you what, Colin, I'll throw

you a hint in the remake. It starred Anna Ferris. Answers up, Chris, overboard. Oh, yes. I got a head blank. Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn. That's right. That's right. That's right.

That was one of those, like, it played on HBO all the time. All the time. Oh, my gosh. Yep. Yep. Yeah. That's one, like, in contrast to 10 things I hate about you or Sleepless in Seattle. Oh, I've seen overboard a lot.

Yeah. Finally, arguably, now the most famous TV show set in Seattle, Gray's Anatomy, has been on TV for how many seasons? Oh, God. closest to Oh really? Okay Arguably now the most famous TV show set in Seattle Probably surpassing Frazier

Gray's Anatomy has been on TV For how many seasons And it's still going Yeah still going All right answers up Chris put 15 Colin is correct with 19 Oh my gosh

Nineteen seasons I thought I was overshooting it a little stagging No end insight. No end insight. Crazy stuff happened on that show. She finally left the show, right? Yeah, Ellen Pompeo.

Ellen Pompeo, thank you. Gray, you know. Great. All right, good job, everybody. Woo. 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 no-frails.ca. Okay, I will take us on home here. I have a quiz for you guys about fabrics, textiles, cloths, all kinds of things in that family. It is called The Fabrics of Our Lives. All right, here we go. Get your barnyard buzzers ready. I have a variety of questions from,

the world of things that can be woven, created, wrapped, knit, and so forth. All right. Miranda Lambert, Hayden Panetteer, and Zoe de Chanel have all sung versions of the jingle for what fabrics trade association. Wow. Karen, no hesitation. Cotton. Is this the fabric?

The fabric of our lives jingle, they introduced in 1992, or slogan, you know, everyone you look at, a slogan originally. It's pretty recent. Yeah, you know, it feels maybe a little more timeless. It never hit me that this isn't a brand. You see like their little logo there, the cotton logo, you see it on a lot of cotton goods. And that's right. It is, it is the, that is the slogan of Cotton Incorporated.

Which is the, they're U.S.-based, but global-minded. They're essentially a trade association to just promote cotton, get you thinking about cotton, make you want to buy cotton, wear cotton. Yeah. All right. Moving right along. Linen. Good old linen.

You can make whatever you make some sheets, make a suit out of linen, very versatile. One of the oldest and most widely used fabrics in humanities. history, linen comes from the fibers of what plant? What plant? Chris? Is it the linseed plant? I'm going to need you to press a little bit more here. That's, well, I can't. So that's, that's, that's I will accept linseed. I will accept linseed. I was looking for flax, but I will accept linseed. Oh, okay. Yeah. Oh, my God. Are they same thing?

They are. That's right. And they very, yeah, you get a lot of stuff out of the linseed plant or flax. You call it linseed oil, but you don't see? Rinseed oil, that's right. But you have flax is called linseed. You can get flaxseed oil. They're kind of like flaxseed oil kind of tends to be more for like you ingest it.

And linseed oil kind of tends to be more for, you use it for, yeah. But they all come from the same plant. Yeah, flax. A very, yeah, a very useful plant. Wow. The word itself has actually worked its way into the English language in ways that you may not even realize. So we talk about materials having, say, you know, I got a jacket that has a nice lining, right? Or we talk about this book is with the verb to line something with originally meant to cover with linen.

In the Middle Ages, it was extremely common to use linen as an inner layer on garments and jackets against, you know, particularly heavier, rougher materials. Wow. All right. As parents of toddlers, which we all are, I can almost guarantee that you have in your house somewhere at least one item made of felt. what is felt oh jeez if you wanted to make some felt how would you go about doing it karen it is basically meshing wool fibers with no regular pattern it's just kind of compressed and knotted fibers of wool broadly correct yeah you're even a little maybe a little more specific it's just natural just fibers mashed together yeah wool oh it doesn't have to be wool it doesn't have to be wool

And in fact, yeah, these days there are a lot of, you know, natural and other natural and synthetic fiber felts that you can, you can felt a lot of different fibers. Broadly, there's wet felting and dry felting. And wet felting is kind of the more historic, classic way of doing it. Yeah, you get some wool, you get some animal fibers, that's right. You wet it, you mash them together. And the fibers on a microscopic level, the little jagged shapes and the hooks, they interweave. And when they dry again, it's as if it's a, you know, sort of a uniform piece. That's right, with strength.

I hope this is true because it's a great sort of history of felt kind of thing. I read that there were some peoples, in particular some nomadic peoples, where on long journeys, they would stuff wool, you know, kind of loose wool into their, into their booties and their boots. And the action of walking between the agitation and the- It turns them into shoes? And the sweat from your feet turns them into socks. So it's like by the time, you know, at the end of your journey, you've got these like little socks that you kind of like, you know, baked in your shoes.

Yeah. Another crafty hobby that I think has had a resurgence in the last few years is crocheting. What does the word crochet mean in French? Chris. A hook. It does. Crochet. just means hook.

Maybe easier to say that you're crocheting rather than you're hooking. Sorry, I never thought of that. We'd love to talk about our World's Fairs on the show. One of the standout highlights of the 1939 New York World's Fair was the public debut

of nylon in the form of women's nylon stockings. What? household item common household item was the first commercial product to use nylon it was not in a fabric form toilet cleaner like a toilet brush or like a sponge you're you're you're you're on the right track yeah yeah yeah maybe something with with bristles maybe oh toothbrush it was a toothbrush was replacing hair, you know, for bristles.

I mean, that's what bristles. That's what bristles were made out of paintbrushes, toothbrushes. It was hair, you know, maybe horse hair, maybe other animal hair, but yeah. This waterproof wonder fabric introduced in the 1970s was made of expanded polytetrefluoroethy But better known by what name? Oh. Karen. Is it neoprene?

Ooh, it is not neoprene. It is not neoprene. Is it rayon? It is not rayon. This is a family company. The family's name is in fact in the name of this fabric. Gortex. Oh, Gortex.

Oh, my gosh. I was just going to guess it was like a side-felt thing. Gorex The Gore family Bill and Genevieve Gore and their son Bob Yep Bill Bill Gore in fact

worked at DuPont and was convinced that he could build a successful business around PTFE the substance that I just named and sure enough he did still in business today Gortex makes good stuff

all right wool comes from sheep you probably knew that Yeah, you know, also alpacas, sure, camels, other animals. Marino wool comes from Marino Sheep. But where did Marino Sheep first come from? Yeah, where did Marino Sheep originate? Chris.

Spain? Yes, it was Spain. It was Spain. Marino, the breed of Marino sheep in the Middle Ages. this was fiercely protected, like the marino sheep sort of monopoly in Spain. People were not allowed to export the sheep, like under, you know, severe penalty. Like, you could theoretically be killed if they found out that you were like taking marino sheep out of Spain or letting it kind of get out into the wider world. Today, of course, there are marino sheep in many, many countries.

All right, last one. Last one. Speaking of luxurious wolves, cashmere wool does not come from merino sheep. Does not come from cashmere sheep? What animal does cashmere wool come from? Both of you at the same time. Let's hear it. Lama. Coats. Oh, Karen's correct. It is from Goat. All right, good job, guys. Before we close the show out, I wanted to say on the show because I think that maybe some our listeners might be interested in what I have been doing, you know, at my job, you know, for the past little while.

Because we had a pretty big year in 2022 at the end of 2022 video game developer that I work for, which is called Digital Eclipse. We actually had a couple of big game releases. We had a teenage Ninja Turtles, the Kawabunga Collection, which collects up all the Ninja Turtles games from the 80s and the 90s. And what I do, I'm editorial director. And so all of our game compilations that we do of these classes. classic games. They all have a major, like, historical elements. Like, we talk about the making of

the games. Calabunga Collection, we had tons of, um, the design documents, you know, like scans of the original gaming boxes and manuals and scans of like magazine ads, put together actually a, um, a brand new thing, which was a, an interactive, uh, strategy guide for the games. So if the games have secret codes and things like that, we actually put together as like additional guide that you can read. It looks like an old school video game magazine from the 90s, but you can click on the screenshots and watch a little video of the tip. Then we had another game. It's called Atari 50, the anniversary celebration. And this, we really went all the way with, it's an interactive documentary. It has over a hundred games in it. But the whole thing is laid out. Like a museum.

Yeah. That's what we tried to do. Yeah. And so, like, I wrote this whole, like, timeline of Atari history and hold together all these like cool like digital artifacts and scans of like arcade game flyers and stuff like that if you're interested i mean Atari 50 i would really i would recommend this even if you don't really play a lot of video games it's unlike everything you know Nintendo switch in the house but also PlayStation or Xbox or you know steam pc and it really a very very different approach to like releasing classic games and so if you like all of the trivia on Good Job Brain. This is really just full of interesting trivia about the early games.

I'm not being paid to say this, but yeah, to call it a game is really an underselling it. Yeah, it's, it is. It's, as Karen said, it's like, it's like a museum. On the site Metacritic, which, you know, aggregates reviews and averages them out, they listed as the number six best Nintendo Switch game of 2022. Wow. It's a, it's a unique and different experience, Atari 50. I'm really proud of, really proud of what we did.

Wow, trivia is your job. Yeah, that's always what I was most passionate about, you know, doing, you know, on the media side, you know, was researching video game history and writing big features about it and stuff like that was always super fun. And so, like, now I'm doing that same work, but the output is a video game, you know, instead of an article. And so that's super cool to me. Yeah. So check out video games. I didn't mean to try some of these. Have you thought of video games?

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