Good Job, Brain! - 255: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #51

Episode Date: September 26, 2023

Our brains have successfully recovered from having a grand ol' time at Sporclecon— yes, a TRIVIA convention! So many quizzes in this episode were inspired by jokes and moments from the convention. Our 2023 fall season opener kicks off with ferociously chasing Inky, Blinky, and Pinky in Chris' best-selling video game quiz. We got sports, we got Broadway, we got historical events, and we got Wayne's World while Karen tries to recreate that internal screaming energy by pitting the guys against each other in "Angle of Attack." We navigate the deep meta waters of Wikipedia in Colin's "Disambiguate This!" challenge, and see if you can figure out the secret in the hidden theme quiz. 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. Hello, shudderbugs, shucking with shules while shudling through shunpikes. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 255, and of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your filibolists in flashy falal falling back on falafels. I am Colin. And I'm Chris. Fun fact about Karen, she loves to do the silent count-in, which is like in three, and then holds up the fingers and then points.

But she's queuing herself, so we're looking at her booking, we're like, what? And then she has, go for it. Everybody, welcome. It is our 20-23 fall season. opener. Well, unlike a lot of seasons, I feel like I just saw you guys. A lot of times we start off after the summer and it's like, I haven't seen you all, you know, in forever. But we just saw each other barely a week ago in Washington, D.C. for SporkelCon, 2023. That was a treat. So we were there for SpurkelCon, which is the nation's premier trivia convention. There's a convention for

everything. Why not for trivia? Find your people. It was super fun. full of people who had been on Jeopardy. I think the best story was there's a big trivia contest, basically like the world's biggest pub trivia. It's in the international ballroom with the Washington Hilton. That's where they have the White House correspondence as dinner, you know, like, and we're all sitting at our table, and it's me and Cole and Ryan, two a good job rain fan,

Colin and Karen, and also one of Karen's teammates on the show The Chase. And Karen is just like, guys, table next to us has two people from the chase on it. And I'm like, Karen, our team has two people from the chase on it, too. I think we're in this. And Karen says, no, Chris. Chaseers. And in fact, Victoria and Brandon, two of the chasers on the chase were at that table. They got second. They got second place. They show you how hard it is. That's right. Yeah, we were right behind them physically, not in the standings. Physically, we were right behind them, right behind their table. It was fun. It was electric atmosphere. Well, thank you. All the people who said hi to us

as Sporcah Khan. We will post our panel's recording in a later episode this season. So stay tuned for that. And without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, Pop Quiz, Hot Shot. Here I have a random Trivial Pursuit card. Actually, sometimes. it's not even trivial pursuit. It might be, uh, from other games. Have your barnyard buzzers buzz in with the right answer. Let's do two cards. It's the season opener.

I like it. Let's go nuts. Let's start with speaking of not trivial pursuit. This is forte. What is what is forte? It is an off brand trivial pursuit. Oh, oh, okay. All right. All right.

Okay. Blue Wedge for soaps. Oh, no. All right. What secret did. Vanessa Sterling learn about Matt Corby after marrying him, which resulted in her leaving him. Colin. Secret wife slash family.

Ooh. Go more sinister. Oh, okay. Murdered wife slash family. He murdered her twin sister while she was in a coma. He had killed his former wife Evelyn. Oh, I should have been right. I should have thought more dramatic, more sinister.

Okay, all right, all right. Pink for cartoons. We like cartoons. Who was the host of the Boing Boing Show? Man. Do we have no era? Okay. Chris.

Bozo the clown. You know what? Not far off, calling. Captain Kangaroo. It is Gerald McBoing Boing. Oh, Gerald McBoing Boing. We did, yeah. We just were to, I was going to say that.

I should have said that. I thought it couldn't be the same boing-boing. Plus it's Mick Boing Boing, you know? Yellow Wedge. What caused a 33-minute communications blackout between the Apollo 8 astronauts and the mission control center in Houston? What caused a... What caused the communications blackout? Chris.

A lunar eclipse. You know what? Not far off. Well, because the spacecraft was behind the moon. That's it! Yes. Occluded by the moon. I give me that point.

A brown witch for pairs. Who was the father-daughter team who starred in On Golden Pond? Oh. Colin. That was Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda, right? Yes, correct. All right. Okay.

Green. For ads, what was being advertised when you heard? heard the line, the closer you get, the better you look. Hmm. Say that again, what was the, what was the, what was the, what was the specific? The closer you get, the better you look. This is a brand. This is, yes, a brand.

A brand. It's very specific, but I'll take a, any general direction. Chris, go for it. It's like, you know, Mabelene. Yeah, good, yes, like Revlon. Yeah, right. It is nice and easy shampoo in. hair color. Oh.

Oh. Okay. That is very specific. Orange for fair play. What is, quote, this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaud, and ominous bird of yore? Oh. Everybody. The Raven.

The Raven. Caca. Cac. Cac. And we just played at Sproker Con. Chris and I played in the escape room with some listeners who invited us. And Warren, Sarah, and Alan, thank you. We had a, yeah, Edgar Allan Poe-thing room.

Colin didn't join this because Colin doesn't like fun. Yeah. And Alan gave us Thrill's Gum from Canada, tagline, it still tastes like soap. It's a floral-flavored gum that some people say-slavenber. So I brought it to the office. It made a lot of people do the kombucha lady face, you know, where she's, she, and then, maybe it's okay. Yeah, exactly. While they were having fun, I was sitting in an airplane on the tarmac for two hours at Dulles International Airport.

Oh, man. Which was its own type of fun, Chris. Yeah. Right. You escape from the lightning plane. All right, let's do another card here. Not Forte. This is Gina's two trivial pursuit.

Blue Edge for Geography are most east-west highways in the U.S. even or odd-numbered. Colin. Most East-West highways are even-numbered. Correct. Pink Wedge for entertainment, what TV sitcom chronicles the misadventures of George and Louise? Oh. Chris.

The Jefferson's. It is the Jeffersons. Yellow for history. Who succeeded John F. Kennedy as a senator from Massachusetts? Ooh. Chris Ted Kennedy Yes

Is that right? Safe gas All right Great What cities The setting of Charles Dickens Oliver

Twist Chris London London All right Greenwich Science and Nature Does the bald

eagle Have feathers on its head Come on now Colin Yes The bald eagle has feathers on his head.

The bald eagle is not actually bald. Why is it called bald eagle? Is it because it's very smooth? No, because it looks like it's bald. It's got the color contrast. How does it? The color is different. Why is the bald?

Oh, the word bald refers to an old English use of the word meaning white because bald eagles have white head. Now we know. Last question here. Sports and Leisure, what West Coast baseball team did Father Guido Sarducci start exhorting fans to head out to the ballpark to watch? West Coast. Saturday Night Live, right? Yeah, that's right.

That's who it is. I feel like it's got to be the angels. Incorrect. Colin. I will guess the Dodgers. It is the San Francisco Giants. Okay. All right.

Good job, Brains. Today's episode 255. Usually in a good job, brain episode we have a topic or a theme, but every fifth episode that's out the door. We don't have a topic. We don't have a theme. All of us have prepared quizzes to stump each other

and stump you guys, listeners. So today, episode 255, it's our All Quiz Bonanza number 51. So while we were at SparkleCon, I like, I had video game trivia on the brain because we all, we kept making jokes like whenever a video game trivia question would come up. Everybody would just look at me and be like, yeah, yeah, no worries, I got this. So I was like, oh, I should do like a video game quiz that kind of works in some interesting trivia here. So this is a quiz that is sort of built around the best selling individual pieces.

of game software for various video game consoles. Okay, okay. So I've got some questions like that, and then there's some sort of bonus questions about some of those biggest selling games sprinkled throughout as well, just to try to keep the difficulty level somewhere moderate. You know, in normal pup trivia,

the video game questions we get is like, who is Mario's brother, you know, just really, really casual knowledge. But, you know, With SparkleCon, everybody there is some sort of Jeopardy champ or Genius. And so even the video game questions we got were harder. We're harder than your average question. Exactly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. For our live audience at our live podcast recording that we did, you'll probably hear this when you actually listen to the live episode. At one point, I was like, all right, how many of you people in this room of like either Ben on Jeopardy or The Chase or who wants to be a millionaire or something? It was like a third of the room raised there. A lot of hands. So many people. Yeah. Anyhow.

All right. The best selling video games of all time quiz. Here we go. Get your barnyard buzzers out. It's an old school barnyard buzzer puncher. All right. All right. With over 40 million copies sold, what was the best selling game for the original 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System? The original... Sold. Over 40 million copies were sold. What was the best selling? selling game for the original 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System.

Colin. Super Mario Brothers. It is Super Mario Brothers. Did not want to overthink it. Did not want to overthink it. All right. I was like, some were packed in as multi as combo units. You know what?

Just go with the big one. So those are considered to be sold, right? Okay. All right. It was sold as part of the bundle for sure. Yes. Okay. Bonus question.

Anybody can answer. Complete this line from the original instruction manual for Super Mario Brothers with a two-word phrase. The only one who can undo the magic spell on the mushroom people and return them to their normal selves is the blank. Whoa. Yep, it's Super Mario Brothers canon. The only one who can undo the magic spell on the mushroom people and return them to their

normal selves is the blank. That's a two-word phrase I'm looking for. All right. I was going to say. the princess, but two-word phrase. Princess Toadstool. Princess Toadstool. Very good. The Princess Toadstool. Did she not have the Peach name yet back then? Not yet. Not yet. She was Princess Peach in Japan, but it took a while. It took until Super Mario 64 for them to actually unify the name globally to Princess Peach. Yep. The Princess Toadstool. That was what I was looking for. All right. Good job. Good job. Next question. With over 8 million copies sold, the best-selling game for the Atari 2,600, was this game, whose main character is said to resemble a partially eaten dinner. Colin.

Is that Pac-Man? It is Pac-Man. It is Pac-Man. Pac-Man's main character is said to resemble a partially eaten pizza pie, although that is a fiction. Uh, uh, uh, uh, a candidate. Pacman's creator has heard that story so many times that he's, that he sort of tells it as the truth now. Yeah. It's like, uh, fine. Yeah, it was a pizza. It was a pizza. Bonus question in the original arcade Pac-Man, complete this sequence for the original arcade Pac-Man. Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Blank.

Karen. Clyde. Clyde. I don't know their colors. So Inky is blue. Okay. Blinky is the fast one, Blinky, because red. Pinky is pink, and then Clyde is yellow.

Oh, okay, okay, so pink, okay, so pinky is pink. Yeah. And then Blinky is fast. It's like running a red light, so it's like a red one. Inky, like a blue pen, blue pen ink. And then Clyde is the orange, orange yellow, however, it shows up on the CRT. I like it. I like it.

Okay, with over 24 million copies sold. The best-selling game for the Xbox 360 was bundled with this camera accessory. Okay, well, I... I just want the name of the camera accessory. Oh, oh, oh. Karen. Microsoft Connect? The Connect.

Yes. Connect. Connect. Now, for the bonus point, what is the name of the... You want to guess the name of the game? Oh, God. Oh, is it the mini-games one? The game was Connect Adventures.

Oh. So by far, the best-selling game for the Xbox 360. No way. Yeah, yeah. They sold a lot of those connects. All right, we'll move on to the next question. With over 46 million copies sold between them, the four different versions of the original Pokemon

are collectively the best-selling game for the original black and white Game Boy. What four colors were used to name those original versions? Karen. Note that we're talking about worldwide here. Some of those versions may not have been released in the United States or Europe. Blue red. Uh-huh.

Yellow? Yes. Green. Yes. Correct. Red, blue, yellow, green. Yep. Green was only released in Japan.

Don't, um, actually me by saying that they turned, they retitled green to blue in the U.S. and then blue. Not worry about that. Red, blue, green, and yellow. Next question. At over 400,000 copies sold, the best-selling game for the Sega Game Gear marked the debut of a character

whose legal name is Miles Prower. Karen. Sonic the Hedgehog. That is not correct. Miles Prower is the actual legal name of the character most commonly known as Tales. Oh. Oh, my name was Miles Prower.

So what you are missing is that Tales joined Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Okay, okay. Yes, as the second player in the Genesis version. So, yes, Sonic Hedgehog 2 for the game gear, best-selling game for the Sega game gear. All right, you can bring this back. With over 7 million copies sold, the best-selling game for the Nintendo Game Cube is an entry in this fighting game series. Aaron. Oh, Smash Brothers.

Smash Brothers, yes. Super Smash Bros. Mele. Best selling game for the Nintendo GameCube. With over 80 million copies sold, the best selling game for the Wii was Wii Sports. What five sports did the original version contain? All right, we got bowling. How about you want to alternate? How will alternate? I'll go bowling. You do the next one. Tennis. Yes. We got baseball. Yes. Golf? Yes, one more. Oh my gosh. All I ever played was golf. I think that's very common that everybody picked out one game that they just played all the time. It was boxing. Oh, yes.

Baseball, bowling, golf, and boxing. That was the hard one. That was the one that everyone's like, oh, boxing, super fun. They plug in the two controllers. And then in like 30 seconds, you're like, I'm exhausted. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Let's move on at nearly 11 million copies sold, the best-selling PlayStation 1 game of all time.

Its title is an anagram of giant rumors. Anagram of giant rumors. Oh, is that Grand Turismo? It's Grand Turismo. Good one. Nice work on the mental anagramming. Bonus question. feature film based on Grand Turismo

recently hit theaters in the United States starring which Spice Girl Heron. She plays the mom Jerry Halliwell known as. You got it. Ginger Spice. Jerry Halliwell plays the mom well done. Finally, last question with over 750,000 machines sold around the world, the best-selling arcade game of all time is this

black and white game originally released in 1978. Oh. Holland. Asteroids? It is not... Oh, that was my guest.

Black and white. Pong? It is not Pong. Pong was 72. Asteroids had a vector monitor. It was a little bit later than this. It was in the early 80s. This is 1978.

This is the game. It sold, I mean, 750,000 machines is a lot of machines. For reference, if you think about Street Fighter 2 machines, but if you take Street Fighter 2 and Street Fighter 2 Turbo and Super Street Fighter 2, and Street Fighter Champion Edition, and you add all of those up, it's about 200,000 machines. Oh my gosh. If you add all of those up.

This game sold 750,000. This is what happens. when, like, I don't know, a Japanese coffee shop replaces all of their tables in the coffee shop would sit-down versions of this machine. Oh, man. All right, black and white. Space invaders. Oh.

Space invaders. In my mind, it was in color, but I'm sure it's like a remade version, you know, when, you know, what? No, you know what? There is, they, for some of the machines, they'd put layers of acetate over the black, and white screen. Because if you think about space invaders, everything is in horizontal bands. Your ship is on one horizontal line. The shields, the aliens.

They'd layer acetate so it would look like everything was colored, but it wasn't. And just nothing has ever even come close to touching it as far as like machines manufacturing. Yeah. Yeah. All right. My turn. This is called angle of attack.

Here's the format. I will be asking you a set of questions, individually. So Chris, you'll get a set of five questions. Colin, you'll get a set of five questions. Your questions will be on a subject that you don't know a lot about. But the other person does. Oh, God. We're not about embarrassing each other on the show. But we are about torturing each other. Yes, yes, yes. Torture yes. A embarrassing. No. Trivia is all about angles, angles, and clues. And even if the questions aren't about a subject that you know a lot about.

I've retooled these questions so that they're coming from an angle that you are good at. Wow. So we're going to dive in. Who wants to go first? I'll go first. Okay, Colin, the subject of your quiz is Broadway musicals. You're not the best at, which is okay, because Chris is phenomenally good. at Broadway musical knowledge.

However, here's my little angle. Each one of these is based on historical events. So that's your angle into it. Okay. And, you know, trivia is all about framing. So here we go, five questions, Colin, about Broadway musicals. Lay it on me. What is the name of this musical about a youth-led strike against Joseph Pulitzer

and William Randolph Hearst? Oh, okay. Newspaper men, I'm going to say, is that newsies? Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, correct. It is newsies. A sensational musical about the newsboy strike of 1899. I have not seen 10 seconds of it, but I am aware that it is a thing, that it exists. You know, back then, that's how people got their information is from the morning and then the evening news. paper and how do you get these papers you get it from newsies from newsboys all right next question colin broadway musicals with the angle of history part of this musical explored the historical rainbow tour of nineteen forty seven a non-political goodwill tour throughout europe led by whom

the titular character um so i'll say it again okay all right part of this musical explored the historical rainbow tour of 1947, a non-political goodwill tour throughout Europe led by whom, the titular character. Chris knows. I know, it's just like, whatever you're trying to do, Karen, it's working. It's working great. Your brain is on fire.

That was the inspiration. I'm trying to create that feeling. It's like, oh, my God, I know. We were at like a different trivia panel. They're asking a question. And Colin, you knew the answer. and it was killing you like you were dying to yell at the answer

but you know you can't because you're not you're not playing on stage Chris is about to jump out of this game all right well in 1947 it's it's not it's too late for hello dolly based on the historical rainbow tour which is a real thing a real thing okay it is the Argentine rainbow herself Evita oh wow you were you were trying to give me a lot You were giving me a lot with that one.

I didn't, I didn't, yep. One of Chris's favorites. Oh, yes, yes. It played for years and years and years at a theater near my house growing up. But yep, never saw it, so it didn't help me. But good one. Good question. Good question.

Next one. Six, the musical. It features an all-female six-person cast who all had the pleasure and pain of being associated with what royal historical figure? Oh, okay. Okay. Six, the musical, features an all-female six-person cast who all had the pleasure and pain of being associated with what royal historical figure. I haven't heard of this one.

It sounds good. Is that King Henry VIII? Yes, you are correct. These are his six wives. And they're reimagined as modern-day pop stars. That's a good concept. I like it. You have like a Beyonce, you have like Ariana Grande, and they sing about kind of their story.

Very good. I saw it. I really like it. Next question. The modern musical Come From Away takes place in Newfoundland when 7,000 people unexpectedly landed in the small town of Gander. During what 2001 historic event? This is another one I'm sure we talked about on the show. I didn't know this was a musical.

But I believe these were the people who were mid-air when all flights were grounded after the September 11th attacks. they landed in this tiny little town and were welcomed in with open arms, right? Yes. Okay. Yep, yep. And it's a heartwarming story about, you know, kindness and amidst the 9-11 attacks. All right.

Doing good, Colin. Last question for you. What is the name of the Stephen Sondheim musical whose cast includes the characters, Sarah Jane Moore, Giuseppe Zengara, and John Hinkley Jr. Oh, man. um yeah i mean we were just in the washington hilton yes we're uh we're john hinkley junior impressed jody foster yeah which which is hilarious i mean because every every dc resident that i mentioned oh staying at the washington hilton the absolute first thing out of the oh that's where hinkley shot

reagan you know and it's like yeah i i i know you guys awfully proud of this as dc residents i have But I'm stalling now because I do not know the answer to this one. Who are these people? Who are these people? Sarah Jane Moore. They're assassins or would-be assassins. The name is assassins. Hey, all right.

A collage of stories from famous presidential assassins or attempted. Not bad, Colin. Good, well-constructed quiz. I, yeah, I didn't embarrass myself. which is, as you say, was the goal. Chris's turn. Your subject is sports. No.

Really? Yes. But your angle is entertainment. Okay. All right. Angle of attack is entertainment. Here we go. All right.

What team performed and released the 1985 hit the Super Bowl shuffle two months before they dominated and won Super Bowl 20 against the New England Patriots. My gosh. The Super Bowl shuffle was performed by the Green Bay Packers. Incorrect. I have no idea. Colin? That is the Chicago Bears, of course. But you never asked, you never let me answer my question. That's true. That's true.

Phil Jackson, Steve Kerr, and Barack Obama are just some of the interviewwees featured in the 2020 documentary the last dance. Centered around what athlete? Michael Jordan. Correct. I know you could do it. Next question. What 1990s mainstream music artist

most likely has the distinction of having the most pro-athlete cameos in a music video, including athletes from his local teams like Jose Conceco, Jerry Rice, Ricky Henderson, Dion Sanders, Mullen. Can you give me that question again?

Yes. What 1990s mainstream music artist most likely has the distinction of having the most pro-athlete cameos in a music video, including athletes from his local teams? Jose Canseco, Ricky Henderson,

Jerry Rice, Dionne Sanders, Chris Mullen. Colin over there. I don't know the teams. Okay. I don't know. Prince. It's not really 90s, though. Like what you're saying 90s, so it's like somebody who specifically was really big in the 90s.

Yes. Vanilla iced. Household name. There is only one team that comes to mind when you say Ricky Henderson, and that is the Oakland Athletics baseball team. Oakland Athletics. Is it MC Hammer? MC Hammer Bay Area resident. This was for the video, too legit to quit.

And let me tell you, I had to rewatch this. this is in the golden era of music videos in the 90s. There's the music video and then there's like the 10-minute movie in front of it. Right, right. It is unhinged this video. There's the whole video starts with Jim Belishi at a news desk pretending, oh my God, Hammer is quitting the music industry. What do we do?

It's all these celebrities freaking out about like MC Hammer quitting music. And then James Brown comes in. on a throne, Greek columns, big sets, and a fire, it's crazy. Okay, here we go, here we go. Chris, you can get this. Oh, can I? Okay. What team did legendary hockey center Stan McKita play? Stan McKita, which makes sense considering he had a famous fake donut shop in the film Wayne's World.

What team did he, sorry, what team did he play on? And the clue is Wayne's World. Makita. Makeda. Stan McKita. Where did Wayne's World take place? Milwaukee? They went to Milwaukee.

They went to Milwaukee. They went to Milwaukee. Chicago? Yes. Chicago Blackhawks. All right. Last question. Jason Lee, star of My Name is Earl.

And loads of Kevin Smith movies like Mallrats, chasing Amy, was a professional what, captured in loads of video and magazines in the, 90s before he pursued acting. Jason Lee, star of My Name is Earl, and loads of Kevin Smith movies like Mulrats and Chasing Amy, was a professional what, captured in loads of videos and magazines in the 1990s. Gymnist. Close, close, not gymnasts, it is skateboarder.

He was a professional skateboarding athlete before he became a. an actor. That's right. That's right. That was a good quiz. That was a good quiz. That was challenging. But I really liked that format.

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And we're back. Today's our all-quiz, bonanza, which means it's a whole episode full of weird surprise quizzes. that we prepared for each other. But before we jump into Collins' quiz, I just want to share something. Our friend and former co-host, Dana, used to love weird words. I had to share this one word.

And I'm wondering if you guys ever heard of this. Frass. F-R-A-S-S. Boy. Frass. That sounds really familiar, but it also might sound like a lot of other words. Right, like sassafras.

Yeah, as a free grass? Yeah. Yeah, let us know. It's, okay, it can be two things, but they're kind of very similar. Frass can be bug poop. Frass is also used to describe, you know, when termites bore into wood and they have all this powder, particles that insects are trying to get rid of. They're leaving.

They're leavings. That is a good, fun word. F-R-A-S-S. All right. Colin, it is your turn for all quiz. What do you got? Yeah. This was a quiz that actually had its genesis at the SporkelCon convention.

Not to tie everything back to the convention. I forget we were sitting there at one point and someone said something. We were talking about disambiduation pages on Wikipedia. And someone was like, oh, ha, that would make a good quiz, you know, disambiduation. And we all kind of looked at each other. Me, I said that. It was Chris. Karen and I looked at you, Chris, and we're like, that would make a good quiz.

Now, what is a Wikipedia disambiguation? page, you might ask if you are not a colossal Wikipedia nerd like myself or Karen or Chris. A Wikipedia disambiguation page, I will use their own words. Oh, is there a page, a Wikipedia page for their disambiguation page? Karen, there is a suite. There is a suite of pages. I learned a lot just about the meta workings of Wikipedia. Suffice it to say that on Wikipedia, in their own words, disambiguous.

Ambiguation in Wikipedia is the process of resolving conflicts that arise when a potential article title is ambiguous. They are disambiguating it. They're making it less ambiguous. The simplest concept wrap your head around is famous people with the same name. So there's a lot of famous John Smith's, you know, and so you get my John Smith disambiguation page, for instance, and you find the right John Smith that you're looking for. Different things with the same name.

different things with the same name or very, very similar names. That page is essentially a big old list of, did you mean kind of thinking, all right? I will give you two entries from a given disambiguation page and you tell me what is the term. What is the term that's the title of this page? So, for example, if I were to give you these two entries on this page, a fictional character in children's literature and, A major railway station in London. Oh. Karen, you might guess this is what disambiguation page?

Paddington. You got it. That's right. This is Paddington. And there's a not huge, but a list of other things that you might be looking for, including the famous bear, including the railway station. In this particular case, the main natural page is for the area of Westminster in London. Yes.

That's right. Not the bear. That's where all the naming sort of comes from, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're going to do this lightning round style, I guess. Just buzz in. So let's have some fun. Open your minds, let it wash over you.

We'll start off easy. I'm going to give you three terms, okay, from the given disambiguation page three. And then we're going to move into two here as the quiz gets a little more challenging. All right, get your buzzers ready. Number one. A robot superhero character. A 1992 novel. by Tony Morrison and an NBA basketball team.

Wow. Wow. I was like, well, it's not beloved. Chris? Jazz? Jazz, you got it. All right, okay. You got it.

If you guys are really struggling, I'll give you sort of the more natural term, which in this case you didn't need, and it would be a style of music and its subgenres. These are Wikipedia's terms. These are Wikipedia's terms. What were the three things again that you said? A robot superhero character. So in this case, they're referring to, of course, jazz from the Transformers universe,

one of my personal favorite Transformers, the very cool Porsche, voiced by Scatman Crothers, of course, an all-time great character. Of course. The 1992 novel by Tony's Morrison, Jazz. And then the NBA basketball team, the Utah Jazz. That's right. All right. So I think you got the concept.

Here we go. On to the next one. Number two. an American alcoholic beverage producer a hammerhead shark character in the movie Finding Nemo and a device used to secure a screw in a brittle material

Oh! Chris and then eventually Karen, what do you got? I'm going to go with Anchor. Yeah. Anchor, you have it. That's right. An American alcoholic beverage producer, Anchor Brewing, of course. right near us make great beer a hammerhead shark character anchor one of the

the vegetarian sharks remember the fish are friends not food right anchor and then an anchor like you stick in dry walled all right two for two here as a team here we go a Jonathan Richmond song from 1972 a

1985 racing game a bird of the genus Geocoxics 1985 Oh Roadrunner

It is Roadrunner Yes, roadrunner Good job, good job And again, this is a good example of where on some of the entries on the Roadrunner Disambiguation page, they're Roadrunner, two words,

some of them are single word, but they're all kind of just lumped in together because they know what you're looking for. We're going to move to just two clues here, two clues only. A 1927 film by Fris Long. Oh.

And a fictional American city in D.C. comics. Karen. Metropolis. You got it. Metropolis. That's right. Next one.

A 1970 Van Morrison song. A sugar refining company founded by Henry Osborne Havamire. Oh, my gosh. I only know

Brown I girl. Brown-eyed girl. East coaster, our resident East coaster, Chris, may have been exposed to this sugar company's products more than us west coasters. I'll give you a third clue if you need it.

An international pizza restaurant chain. Oh. Domino. Domino. You got it. Domino sugar. What about the game domino? Well, I'm sure that's on there, too.

There are many entries on this page. That would have been too easy if I gave you that one. There's the comic book character. You can go look at domino space for this desambiduation. Yeah, I almost put the Kiran Knightley movie on. I almost did. I felt the quiz honestly Karen was getting

a little movie heavy to be very frank with you. The point of this quiz is there are many, many, many options I could have chosen. So it's how tricky do I want to get? All right, here we go. Next one. A private university in Houston, Texas.

a mnemonic acronym relating to treatment for soft tissue injuries. Karen, right away. This is rice. You got it. It is rice. Now, so for some bonus

imaginary free points here, what is the acronym Rice, R-I-C-E? What does that stand for? Rest, ice, yeah? Citrus, gets a lemon on there.

Compress. Elevation, right. That's right. Rest, ice, compression, elevation. That's right. Very, very important to note, they do not recommend this strategy anymore. They do not. Oh, yes.

The mnemonic was introduced by, I'm quoting here liberally from Wikipedia, Natch. The mnemonic was introduced by Dr. Gabe Merkin in 1978. He took back. support of this regimen in 2014, after learning of the role of inflammation in the healing process. In fact, the last three, like, rest is good. Everyone agrees. Rest is good. Get off that, get off that ankle. But ice, compression, and elevation all decrease swelling and pain, but they are not reliably shown to heal the injury and they interfere with inflammation, which, you know, physicians now understand has much more of a natural role in your body's

healing process but this is what rice stands for and you may still hear it or variations on it that's right moving right along next one a 1997 film by wolfgang peterson an athletic shoe made by nike okay well there's uh air max i like the way you're thinking though that's not jordan monarch yeah i can bill you out with the third the third one here The call sign for any U.S. Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States. Oh, oh, okay. Air Force One. Air Force One.

Air Force one. Last one. Two clues here. Tell me, what is the disambiguation page I'm looking for? The curling venue at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. an American rapper, actor, and filmmaker. Karen. Ice cube?

It is. Ice cube. Yes, yes. The curling venue was the Ice Cube rapper, actor, and filmmaker, O'Shea Jackson. Ice Cube himself. Good job. All right. Very good.

Very good. I could have chosen some easier ones, but I think we all learned something and we all grew a little bit as a team. Well done. Thank you. From the terrifying power of tornadoes to sizzling summer temperatures, ACUweather Daily brings you the top trending weather-related story of the day every day of the week. You can learn a lot in just a few minutes, stories that will impact you, such as how a particular hurricane may affect your area, or will that impending snow event bring more than just a winter

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And at the end of the quiz, maybe you can discover and find out and deduce what the secret theme is, something that ties these answers together. And because we're going to look at the answers kind of holistically, this will be a write-down quiz. So please get pen and paper ready. Our last quiz of this episode. Here we go. Question number one, the cool kids go to EDC. EDC is a series of electronic dance music festivals held all over the world,

but its main event is in Las Vegas, EDC, Las Vegas. What does EDC stand for? Again, the cool kids go to EDC. EDC is a series of electronic music festivals held all over the world with his main event in Las Vegas. What does EDC stand for? I think I know this. I feel at least two thirds.

All right. Chris has Electronic Dance Collective. And then Colin, you put Electric Daisy Carnival. Correct. It is Electric Daisy Carnival. Who. Next question. Hey, Alexa. What is the name of Amazon's small puck-sized smart speaker? Oh, yeah. It's the... It's very affordable. It's small.

Okay. All right. answers up. Chris has dot. Colin has dot. You are correct. It is the Amazon Echo dot, or just the Amazon dot. Dot. dot next question similar to how we Americans call it jersey or uniform what word do the Brits use to describe all the gear a soccer player or athlete has to wear similar to how we Americans use the word jersey or uniform what word do the Brits use to describe all the gear a soccer player or athlete has to wear all right answer is up Chris put kit Colin put kit correct it is kit kit like a shaving kit it is a kit full of all the things you need your shin guards your

uniform socks uh the whole package all right next question at the congress of vienna in 1815 what soft french cheese earned the title the queen of cheese at the congress of vienna in 1815 what soft french cheese earned the title the queen of cheese All right answers up Both Colin and Chris put Bree it is Bree

You are correct Next question Vernors Bundaberg and Reeds are all makers of what kind of beverage Verners which is a side note

My all time favorite soda Vernors Bundaberg and Reed are all makers of what kind of beverage has to be more specific than soda things answers up if i know karen i know what she's looking for ginger ale colin put ginger beer ale correct nothing beats verner's oh verner's so good it's so good before he became nightwing Dick Grayson was who Before he became

Nightwing, Dick Grayson was who? Answers up. Colin, why are you writing so much? I was just trying to be cute. Okay. Chris put Robin, and then Colin put Robin in a big squiggly scratch. What were you going to say?

I was going to put in parentheses Bruce Wayne's Ward. Just, you know, just ran out of time to get the yeah was he was that the tech like technical he was like the the the on gray joy for the i think that was i think that was the mechanism and the stories yeah that they that they used to just explain why yeah he would just a child living with him yeah doing good doing good all right next question the national trust of wales would really like you to stop leaving socks on the beach in Pembrokeshire Wales, where the movie version of this fictional character died.

Once again, the National Trust of Wales would really appreciate it if you stop leaving socks on the beach in Pembrokeshire Wales, where the movie version of this fictional character died. Oh, this is a Chris question. Okay. I hope it's, okay. All right. Answers up, please.

Okay. Okay, let's go with Colin first. Colin put Mr. Toad. Ah, that's a good guess, but Chris is correct with Dobby. Dobby is a free elf when you give him a piece of clothing. And in Harry Potter's universe case, Dobby was given a sock, therefore he was freed.

Well, the Harry Potter fans are leaving socks. at this one beach where they filmed the scene where, you know, Dobby, even though he's CGI, died. You know, there's somebody there like with binoculars just waiting. They see someone with the sock. They're like, oh, you've got to be kidding me. You get out of here. Or the person who wants to clean the beach is like, well, here's two trash bags of socks.

Like, what do I, you know, what do I do with it? We got one last question here. One last question. We'll end it with the easy one. What word means a small amount? perhaps originated from the word for baby frogs What word means small amount Perhaps originated from the word for baby frogs

If you know the name for baby frogs Well, you're in luck All right Chris put Tad, Colin has Tad question mark It is Tad A Tad, just a Tad I guess that makes sense No no no no definitive origin

And just people are guessing it's because we call tadpoles, like a tad, a little, a little thing. All right. Now, you've answered my quiz. You have the answers in front of you. Is there a theme? Can you kind of suss out a theme? Okay. So, all right.

So, Chris, I'm looking at these answers. And a lot of them sure seemed to me like they could be names as well as things. We got Bree. Dot, Kit. Robin, Ted, Daisy, Ginger. It was like women's names for a while, and then we got to Dobby. And Pat, and things sort of took a hot left turn there at Dobby. Agreed.

I mean, like, are these cartoon characters from the same universe or like a related, I don't know, comic book series or something? Close. They are names. Yeah. Specifically, all of these answers, they're diminutive nickname versions of proper names. You might not know that some of these names, you know, you've heard of them as names, but they're actually a nickname or a shortened nickname for a longer proper name. All right. Run us through it here. All right. Top to bottom of these I know. Yeah, okay. Wow. Okay. Daisy's the most interesting one.

So I had no idea Daisy was a nickname for Margaret. I swear, Margaret has the most obscure nicknames attached to me. Like you get from Margaret to Peggy somehow.

I'm like, what, come on. There is an explanation and is beautiful. It is because Marguerite in French is Daisy.

Oh. Wow. Wow. Okay, and then we got Dot. Dorothy. Yep. And then Kit

Catherine Christopher Catherine Yeah Then Brie Wow Like Brianna Or like

Brianna but Bridget Bridget Bridget Bridget Bridget Then Ginger Virginia Virginia

Oh Okay sure Robin Like Robert Robert is the source of Robin and Dobby Dobby is a nickname

for Robert. Interesting. Real old-timey, I'm guessing. Rob, Robbie, Bob, Bobby, Dobby, Dobby, apparently, Bert, Bernie. It's because there were only four names like in the community.

They all had to have, you know, find ways, yeah. And then Tad, what is that? Theodore, I think. Yep, Theodore. Oh, I like that. So what inspired this quiz? was listeners. We have a listener group on Facebook

that the fans and listeners started. It's called Good Job Bram Loeb-Trotters. A lot of listeners are in this Facebook group. We share stories, share sure quizzes, share facts. Someone shared this fact, a sport fact. The Major League Baseball MLB Home Run Record for Brothers, for Brothers, is held by Henry Aaron and Tommy Aaron. Henry Aaron with 755 home runs.

Tommy Aaron with 13. And I was like, oh, wow, 755, that's a lot of home runs. How come I've never heard of Henry Aaron? And I turned around, I asked my husband as a baseball nut. I was like, did you know that the MLB home run record for brothers is held by it? And before I could finish the sentence, he's like, oh, yeah, Hank Aaron and Tommy Aaron. And in that split second, my mind imploded as you realize for the first time. I'm 41 years old, and I did not know, Hank is a nickname for Henry.

Yes. Oh, man. Anyways, good job, everybody. And that's... Well, hold on, hold on. Before we end the show, I just want to plug my day job. job a little bit here. We released not one but two video games, one of which

I was the editorial director on and wrote the whole thing and directed all the videos and everything, and it's called The Making of Carotica. And it's an interactive documentary video game all about the landmark game Carotica, which was released in 1984.

And basically, even if you've never heard of the game, the whole idea is that it's playing a documentary. We tell you about the story of the game. We use audio and video and playable games. We use audio and video and playable game snippets and stuff like that to like tell this very, very cool behind the scenes story of this game. I feel like if you like good job brain and you play video games, you should really check this out because it's very much like, did you know this

and did you know that? Rave reviews from everybody who is looking at it and playing it. If you were watching like a documentary film about a video game, you'd be thinking like, oh, I wish you could like try the game a little bit to like experience what these people are talking about. Best way to tell the story. to do it in an interactive game. It's on PCs, it's on Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation. Yeah, check that out. And then also, if you want something that's more of a straightforward thing,

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