Good Job, Brain! - 265: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #53 with Dani Siller & Bill Sunderland

Episode Date: December 6, 2023

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You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, austere, osmatic, ostriches, ospicating oscillations in Austria and Australia. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 26.6. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your end-of-year yearlings yearning for yurts. I'm Chris. Welcome to the season finale for the season before we go on break. Colin is not here with us today because he's freezing his butt off in Berlin for work.

So good luck, veal gluk, Colin, fret not. We have a few special guests joining us for today's Jolly Funn. time. I'm Bill. And I'm Danny. Woo! Yay! Hopefully imbued enough with the spirit of Colin. Welcome, Bill and Danny from Escape This Podcast. Hey, thank you for having us.

Lovely to work with you again. We're also long-time listeners have listened to every episode of Good Job Brain multiple times. Well, Bill and Danny, where are you guys a recording from? We are in Sydney, Australia. Basking right now It's hot It is hot And it's just the start of December In Australia

And it is hot It's the start of December everywhere No Without further ado Let's do some trivia Let's jump into our first Trivia segment Pop Quiz

Hot Shot Here I have a Random Trivial Pursuit card Random from the box And this is Trivial Pursuit 90s 1997 Trivial Pursuit card About the year in 1997

Oh, it's pushing it for our memories I think, hold on, hold on Spice Girls John Howard Yeah, okay, okay, no hold on It's slowly coming back Okay, good Usually we have our barnyard buzzers

Chris has the rooster You guys being our guests We don't have buzzers for you So you have to improvise an animal sound Please share with the class What your animal buzzer sound is Well, why don't we go, do you want to go Chinese zodiac year? Because we've got different years.

I could be a sheep. I could go, that would put me at horse. Two easy animals. What if it was dragon? What would you do? Or rabbit. Here we go. Pink Wedge.

Whose 1997 antics inspired the headline, lobe blow for boxing? Oh, okay, yeah. Chris. Mike Tyson. Yes. Mike Tyson's bite out. And his victim? Avanda Holyfield.

Yeah, Avanda Holyfield. Yeah, oh, right. Okay, okay. Yellow Wedge, what famed movie supercomputer did the University of Illinois have two birthday parties for in 1992 and 1997, thanks to a script descriptor? see. Oh, interesting. Bill.

Is it Hal? It is Hal. Purple Wedge, what 1997 movie brought the Spice Girls to the silver screen? Danny, you should have this one.

You'd think I'd remember what the movie was called. Was it just called Spice World? Spice World. Nice. Spice World. Spice World.

Orange Wedge, what word did Dr. Hollander coin to describe the condition where bodybuilders think they are small no matter how much they bulk up? Oh. Ooh. Chris. Is it like Napoleon syndrome? No. No.

Bodybuilders think they're small no matter how much they're up. Portmanteauville. Oh, portmante. So I was just wondering if this was maybe like the first. origins of body dysmorphia as a phrase. And then it had expanded out from there. But no, it's a portmanteau. No, I've never heard of this word.

Oh, okay. But it's bigorexia. Oh, wow. 1997 was a wild year, man. All right. Green Wedge, what National Five and Dime close its last 400 stores in 1997? As the Resident American, I'm going to tackle this one.

I believe that's probably Woolworth. It is Woolworths, right? It is Woolworth. Really? It is Woolworth. Oh, I guess Sears is like a department store. I was going to get, I would have guessed Sears. Sears is still around, technically.

I have no cultural context for a Five and Dime outside of Bruce Springsteen. Outside of, I'm on my first, Bruce Sears string. Oh, you're in a five and dime. That's all I thought. I think that's all you need. That's practically all I have, too. It's a place where you can buy things. Right.

Yeah, exactly. We also have the, um, Al, Woolworths is completely different, I assume, to what your concept of Woolworths is. Well, you still have one. Their Woolworth is a department store. A grocery store. It is one of the two major grocery stores all over the country. Yeah, we have funny things like that.

Like Kmart as well is completely different. There's a consistent theme of Americans seeing Kmart in Australia. I mean, like, you still have Kmart? And then you have to be like, no, no, no. There's no connection between the two companies. It's the same type of store, but there's literally, there's no connection. They just both came up with the name Kmart. I don't know why. Please. I don't know why this is funny to Americans. I've never been to an American Kmart,

but they all love it. This is what it is. Australians go to America and are fascinated by squirrels. Americans come to Australia and are fascinated by Kmart. Perfect comparison. So we're not done with the card, but I will have to say now that we're on the topic, the quizzes I prepared today, I actually thought really, really hard, because we have Australia representation and American representation. I was like I don't want to ask a quiz about like American TV shows like that's not fun or that's not really

I was very worried about the Trivial Pursuit card because we get different trivial pursuit questions. Oh my God, do you guys have a card? You know what? I literally have a box right there. Do you have them right next to me? Oh my God. Okay, let's finish this card and let's do Australian Trivial Pursuit. Oh my God, then I can play. Most of it will be the same but you never know. You never know. Find a good card.

Just get a flavor. We'll just get a flavor. We'll just get a flavor okay uh okay last question on this 1997 trivial pursuit card uh what pitcher earned the nickname headachey when his refusal to negotiate with the padres prompted his trade to the yankees a pitcher is uh a player in the uh baseball it's like in cricket how you have the uh the guy the ball wall warler yeah whatever yeah the ball hurler yeah i 100 percent heard picture and i thought of the scream because he looks like he has a headache. Yes. Picture.

Yes. His nickname is headache. Like headache, but he... His nickname is headache. Okay. Headache. Um, um, um, um, um, Chris. Rodriguez.

No, I was hoping you'd get it. Hideki. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh my gosh. I would never have made that.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. Good job. Oh my God.

I'm so excited for us. Here we go. I'll see if I... Oh, I'd like to find one. There's one Australian question here, but... Oh, no, there's two. All right, let's have a go. Wow.

Well, I can't do the first question because it's got a picture. Okay. So we'll start from pink. We'll start from entertainment. Here we go. Okay, okay. Which comic book villain asks,

in his 1989 celluloid incarnation, you ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight? Great, that's normal. Okay. You have to call on. Oh, sorry. I apologize. I'm new to the format.

I haven't run this before. It's a simple, it's just a simple thing, Bill. I don't know who buzzed in, but I'm going to give it to Karen. It's the Joker. Yes, the Joker. Right? Yes. Yep, yep.

Perfect. All right, yellow history. Which country suffered the most casualties in the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 to 1916? Gallipoli is incredible That was a rooster Chris Australia How dare you

New Zealand How dare you No the answer is the Turkish Ottoman army This is something that is so fundamental to like Australian culture is the Gallipoli campaign It is huge This is how World War I thing It is the biggest

thing. It was a World War I campaign where Australia and like Australian, New Zealand troops alongside British troops attacked Turkey at Gallipoli. And I think it was one of those ones like we lost, but also there were 251,000 Turkish casualties and a combined like 100,000 British and Australian casualties. But we just, it's like our big World War I moment was Gallipoli. And I learned something today. There you go. Australian question. My nephew is named after the main character in the movie Gallipoli. Oh my gosh. There you go.

Is that big a deal? Gallipoli's a big thing. All right, let's go to Purple Wedge. Who is the hero of Matthew Riley's seven ancient wonders, six sacred stones, and five greatest warriors books? Wow. Did Matthew Riley make it out? Who is the hero of Matthew Riley's, seven ancient wonders, six sacred stones, and five

greatest warriors books Karen I'm gonna guess Hercules no no this is not one that you're gonna be able to just guess randomly oh okay okay this is like the name of the

the main character of this series of like what I'm assuming are pop boiler thrillers yeah Matthew Riley sort of writes like airport kind of airport yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah our Dan Patterson James James

did you just combine Dan Brown with James Patterson. Yeah, yeah. Yes. He finished there. He went to Billy's high school. He went to my high school. Oh my gosh.

This is a very, what's the guy? Who's the guy? Obviously, and I had no idea. I've never read these books. It was Jack West Jr. Oh, that's beautiful. That's so beautiful. It is good.

Yeah. All right. Green Wedge, what liquor filled thermometers before Mercury did the job? Get it. Oh, man. Yes, that horse It's going to be just something ordinary, like water, right? Liquor, not liquid.

Oh, it said liquor? Oh, I thought you said liquid, my mistake. Horses can't understand English, it's okay. Well, he has an Australian accent, so I remember it. Exactly. Karen. Vodka. That's good.

But it's wrong. That's good, but it's wrong. Chris. What are the liquors? White Claw. That's correct. Yes. The answer is brandy.

Brandy. Why? Brandy. Oh, maybe because it's colored already. Oh, perhaps. Maybe it's just got the most alcohol at the time and you want something with a high alcohol concentration. And then they're like, people kept drinking the thermometers. So they swapped it out for mercury.

To stop them doing that. There was a very dangerous transition period for a while. And then final question, orange wedge. What were the first basketball hoops made from? Oh, yeah. Chris? Fruit bushels. Like, orange baskets.

Like, they were made out of like baskets or apple baskets. You're very close. You've got the basket part. You're just missing the fruit. I was basketball. I said apple. I said orange pear, banana, pineapple. Keep going.

I'm squat. Kiwis. Is it kiwis? Nope. Grapefruit. Lemons. Lines. That's incorrect. Nope. Dragon fruit. Not that one.

I'll tell you, I'll give you a hint. It's a stone fruit. Peaches? Peaches. Really? Okay. Nothing but peach basket. I guess that's what they say in the NBA. Where I suppose once it went into the basket, they had to climb up and pull it back down.

Somebody had to invent a hole. A hole. Well, there you are. That's an Australian Tribal Pursuit card. You learned about Gallipoli and Matthew Riley. Thank you so much. That was very Australian. Yeah, it was good. Oh, what a rush.

Wow. One of the most difficult things, once we bought the newest trivial pursuit that was out, and it turned out that for some reason, they hadn't Australianized it yet, so it was fully British. We cannot answer half the questions. Wow. Oh, my gosh, yeah.

Don't even attempt British Trivial Pursuit. Which member of Parliament played cricket between 1882 and 1891 for the national team? You're like, I don't know? Well, folks, it's episode 265, usually in a normal episode of Good Job Brain. We have a theme and everybody does their little secret segments inspired by the theme. But every fifth episode, we have no theme. We have just pure 100% quizzy goodness. Our special guest, Bill and Danny, they've also prepared quizzes.

Chris has a quiz. I have quizzes. So today it's our all-quiz bonanza number. Number 53. All right, get ready, everyone. In my quiz, it's going to be a battle between the hemispheres. In this corner, we have the thunder and wonder from down under. Danny and Bill.

Repping the Southern Hemisphere. Perfect. In our other corner, well, from California, USA, Chris by, self representing the Northern Hemisphere. You've got a lot of weight on your shoulders representing North America and Europe. That's a whole hemisphere. It's a, I'm calling you the Uno from San Bruno. Tremendous.

So we got the North, we got the South. And so in this quiz, we are going to meet in the middle. Oh. It's a buzzin quiz. I will be asking you trivia questions about things in the middle or in the center. All right? Question number one.

In the game of darts, how many points is the bull's eye worth? Bill. It's 50. 50 points. 50 points. Next question. The geographical center of the contiguous United States is in what state? Oh, this is a good one to know.

I'm sort of mapping it out in my head. But I don't. Chris. Nebraska. Incorrect. Nay. Danny. Kansas?

It's Kansas. Hey, it's Kansas. Nice. Okay, to make it fair, even though Danny got that question right, to make it fair, the geographical center of Australia is in what state? Oh, dear. Chris, do you want to have a crack? Oh, yeah, because I totally know the states of Australia. Bill.

Sure, it's got to be South Australia Incorrect It's not Oh, okay, then I guess it's Yeah It is in Northern Territory Do we know the name? It has a name

First of all, that's not a state It's a territory That's a whole different thing So I should have specified I'm actually I'm actually That's not how it works I really thought that

South Australia went higher than high No I thought that Northern came down enough But I wasn't sure I'm not good at visualizing maps. What's the name of the geographic center? Not even slightly an idea. It's just like air.

It's called Lambert Center, and they actually pumped in a lot of mathematical study and research work into determining what technically is the center. Like, what do we count as center? So Lambert Center, there's like a poll there. It's a whole thing. Wild. All right.

Next question. What is the name of the central part of the brain? That's part of the brain stem. That's responsible. for regulating basic bodily functions. Oh, which one is it? It's, um... Nay!

Danny? That's not in the middle. I want to say, the cerebellum? Incorrect. Yeah. It's not the, is it the medulla enblongata? No, that's the part of it. Nice.

Okay, okay. All right, next question. The center of the Milky Way, the galaxy, not the chocolate, it is a super massive black hole called what? Ooh. I didn't know how to name. I thought they were all called like 1A2.34. X, Z.

Yeah, they all sound like Elon Musk's children names, yeah. Exactly. Bha, Bill. I believe it's the Hellmouth. No, it's a Sagittarius A. Oh, okay. All right. Oh, so it does have a letter in there.

They always snake them in. Yep. All right. True or false, most of Shakespeare's work was written in Middle English. Oh. False, false, false. It's modern English. I think it's. It's early modern. It is early modern.

An example of Middle English would be like Canterbury Tales. Right, right. All right, let's get into some vexilology. What is in the center of the national flag of Cambodia? Um, nay. Danny. The, uh, Ancour what? Correct. It's anchor white. It's blue, red stripes, and then a beautiful bit of architecture right in the middle there.

Okay. So middle earth is where most of a Tolkien universe happens. Middle earth. If middle earth is the main continent, what is the name of essentially the earth? Tolkien's earth. Oh. So, so Middle Earth is a continent. what is the larger you know he didn't write it like a planet it's like a flat which is everything else yeah yeah yeah oh this one hurts bill i know this must be killing you even more than it's killing me i used to know so many Tolkien facts oh yeah it's four letters is it oh um bar is it like arda arda arda arda arda yes arda arda arda i rda my bells hmm great there's some fun like

middle earth facts about like when parts of middle earth appear in text because i'm pretty sure the first book to have mentioned like numinor as part of middle earth uh was actually perilandra by c s lewis he wrote about merlin coming back and talking about like numinor and middle earth and all this other stuff and he has like a post script where he's like if you want to learn more about numinor and middle earth you know you should check out my friend's upcoming book lord of the rings Shut out. It's a promo drop. And so that came out before Law of the Rings, but after the Hobbit.

And it used a few of the names and references for places because they were just like, let's build a mythos for Old England together. Wow, that's cool. Next question. The exact halfway point of a non-leap year calendar year falls on what date? Maths time. Hold on. Okay, all right.

I feel like it's shorter. It's like 30 days have September, April, June, and November. So there's more 31 day months in the back half of the year, which means that it's like the July, July 2nd. It is July 2nd. Boom. Dang, that was good stuff. Great job by me. Last question in this quiz.

In the landmark musical film Sound of Music, the Von Trapp family had seven children. Oh, my God. What is the name of the middle child by age? If you sort of them by age, who's in the middle? Okay, it's not Liesel. I just know Liesel. Yeah, exactly. It's all we know.

Is it one of the boys? No one thinks about the boys, do they? Yeah, like a Hansel? Hansel? Is it Gretel? Gratia, Jan. Marcia, Marcia, Marcia. You know, I almost went with pretty much kids too.

Is there a bridge? or Brigitte or something. Oh, Brigitte. I like Brigita. That might be one of the babies, so I don't know. Is it like Captain Jr? Captain Jr. It is.

Daddy's almost there. It's one of the boys. It's the younger boy. There's two boys. I'm... Kurt. Kurt. You're the children in order from oldest to youngest.

Leasel. Friedrich. Louisa. Kurt. Brigita, Marta, and Gretel. Gretel. Oh, Gretel was in there. Just not Hansel.

Going up backwards, up the stairs. Definitely. The sun has gone to bed. The sun has gone. I need to make a good mnemonic for that one. I need to remember it. I think you just need to watch that clip when they introduce all the kids. Yeah, they're like march out.

And the whistle. All right. Well, thank you guys. Thank you. I hope you guys enjoyed my middle center quiz. So this is really funny because this quiz that I'm going to do right now, I almost had a question in here about Australian people being fascinated by squirrels when they come to America. And that's exactly what you said. And I was like, oh, that interesting, because they are squirrels and chipmunks and stuff like that.

They are adorable. And I guess you guys don't have them? Not those ones. Not those ones. I mean, our equivalent would be our brush tail and ringtail possums, surely. Right, right, right. those little cues, but they're not quite as little and bouncy and cute-faced as squirrels are. We do have adorable little street animals here. And so I had actually put this quiz together.

And there is a blog post by an Australian writer named Aaron Holmes. And the blog post is titled, 50 Weird Things About the USA, parentheses, as witnessed by an awesome. Now, I've plucked out 10 of these things. I'm going to go to Karen first. We're going to see if Karen can get the answer to this question. And I want to be really clear. This is one Australian person who came to the U.S. and observed these things. I'm not saying this person represents the opinions of everybody in Australia.

And so I'll ask Karen the question. If you can't get it, we'll see if, if Danny or Bill wants to grab it. And then we can discuss a little bit because, quite frankly, I'm reading these things and I have some questions. So we'll just jump. And then hopefully after this, we're done with all of the sort of, you know, jokes about Australia. Not that we're making jokes about the expense of Australia. Well, you haven't gotten to my quizzes yet. So, oh, all right.

So question one. Our Australian correspondent who wrote this piece, Karen, was surprised when she got to the U.S. that thongs are not one. I have an Australian husband. You guys know that, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but, you know. Flip-flops. What am I going to do?

Colin's gone. You're the only person it was here. We don't know if you talk to your husband. Exactly. He's not in the room. So, yes, thongs. And if you said a pair of thongs in Australia, that would refer to flip-flops or the sort of beach sandals,

whereas in the United States it refers to a style of underwear, essentially. What do you call that style of underwear in Australia? That's a great follow-up. I would just be looking at that and calling it a G-string. Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. All right, I'll move on to question number two.

When the Australian writer came to the United States and they wanted to buy a loaf of bread, they said they had to carefully study all of the loaves of bread in the supermarket just to be able to find one without what ingredient. All the loaves. They looked at all the lobes of bread in the supermarket. It took a long time to find a loaf of bread. without what ingredient, which again, struck them as very odd. So you're saying that American bread has something weird.

Yes. Wow. Ah, oh, I see your Australian husband, quote, unquote. My Canadian girlfriend hasn't told you about this one. Is it sugar? It is sugar. It is sugar. Famously American bread quite sugary.

Although, I want to say Japanese bread blows it out of the water in terms of being super. And Korean bread is what they're like really sugary bread. It's like dessert. For them, it's almost dessert. They don't really eat a lot of like, you know, sandwiches and things like that, right? So, I mean, typically the bread is actually used for like breakfast or, you know, it's like a sweet kind of thing. When you ate American bread, was it, could you taste the difference, like in a sandwich or something? You're like, this is weird.

Especially like, especially plain white bread. When you get like more kind of whole meal bread, it's not as much a thing. But just white bread, yeah, you can taste it. You're like, oh, it's a sugary bread. When we were in America recently, the hotel we were at got away with it very nicely because the only bread they had was sourdough. So that was... Yeah, that was fine.

Very normal. Oh, interesting. Okay. Okay, question three. The Australian writer was very surprised because taxi drivers and hairdressers and hotel staff and waitresses, everybody is expecting one of these. A tip. A tip.

A tip. I am a little bit surprised that this author was surprised by this because it's a very known thing. Half the time you don't even like make a decision not to tip someone. You just like walk out of a service, be like, none, I've paid for it and I'm leaving. And someone in there is like, you bloody Australian, what are you doing? You know, you're like, I'm so I didn't even think. Like, you asked me for something.

You said how much it would cost. So I gave you the money. You made this thing and the money is gone to you. Now I'm done. It's like, you just gave me the money I asked for, did you? You loser. You didn't give me the other money that I didn't ask for, but expect it. It's tough.

Everywhere's got their cultural norms. Okay, Karen, here's question number four. This drink in Australia is more like Sprite or Mountain Dew. So they were very surprised when they ordered it in America to find something totally different. Okay, say that again. So in Australia, okay. This very common drink that you see in a restaurant menu. In Australia, if you order that, you would get something that's more like a sprite or a mountain dew or something like that.

But in the U.S., they ordered it and they get something that is completely not what they expected. Okay. So I'm going to guess. Lemonade? It's lemonade. Yes. It's a lemonade. Yeah.

We technically have that lemonade as well at some places and markets and things, but it will always be called homemade lemonade. Oh, interesting. There are definitely some surprises that we've had when it comes to drinks, though. I think tea has surprised us a lot more than lemonade. Why is that? Why? We're both like, why?

So first of all, there's a difference in like a cultural expectation of how tea is served to the extent where either I'll say, I'll be in America, I'll say, I'll have tea and they'll be like, hot or cold? And I'll say, why are you asking me this? Obviously hot. What are you talking about? Question number five.

Waking up at their hotel one day and going downstairs for some coffee, they were surprised to find that this popular Australian addition to coffee was nowhere to be found on the the hotel's you know coffee bar oh something you add to coffee some here's the thing in america sometimes you will find this but not always and they were very shocked that it was not an always thing for coffee okay so let me think in australia flat whites are very very popular but you don't

really get that from a hotel a downstairs hotel lobby so it must be like like kind of really common thing. Maybe something like we use half and half in milk and maybe they use like cream. That is my final answer. It's sort of the opposite of what you just said. We use half. Yeah. Okay, Danny is Danny is shaking red vigorously.

I definitely know that half and I don't drink coffee, but half and half and cream are not things that I get in that context at all. I don't even get what half and half is. It's true. Half what? Is it half milk off cream? It's straddling the line between milk and cream. Exactly.

Yeah, yeah. But the answer is that Australians put milk in their coffee. Only milk. Oh, only milk. So actually, just continuing on with this same line of thought, the writer's guess as to why you can gain weight so easily in the United States is because restaurants give you this. The answer is not half and half. A soda refills. You got it.

You nailed it. I was thinking unlimited breadsticks. That too. And it's very similar, right? Something that is extremely common. I mean, it would be ridiculous if you went to an American restaurant and you ordered, you said, give me a Diet Coke. And then he drank the whole thing. And then he said, I want another one. And they said, that's another $4. Wow. I'd leave. There would be like a riot. Wow. Walk right out. The Australian writer was shot to witness Americans at the cash register using this. this antiquated form of payment. It is not a, I'm going to say, it's not a credit card with the stripy thing.

I mean, you did, you guys, I think, did switch over to chip cards like way earlier than we did, but it's not that. It's a different kind of payment that is still accepted in places sometimes. Like a check? A check. A briefcase full of bearer bonds?

It might as well be for how well I know how to use. checks. Any form of payment in America feels like jumping like 10, 15 years in the past. We were just in America. I was signing things. I'm like, what do you mean? Oh, yeah, we don't sign things. As in like, I'd swipe a card. They'd bring me things like sign here. But like, what do you mean sign here? What year is it? But even chips is like inserting my card was like, what are you talking about? Insert my card. I don't insert cards anymore. Get out of here. I just sort of like brush it past a piece of plastic and things happen. What do you get out of here? Okay, question eight, in Australia, you generally only display one of these every January 26, but in the U.S., they're hung up everywhere all the time.

Danny knows. Oh, yeah. January 26th. Okay, so at first I wouldn't say like the flag, but then, oh, but then that's like a, it's like, and Zach is a thing, but that's like, and that's like, and Zach is a thing, but that's like, Like later in the year. I'll say the flag. It's the flag. It's our country's flag.

So Danny and Bill, you can tell us what January 26th is for everybody who doesn't know. That is Australia Day at the moment. So, yeah, for the more Remembrancey day ones like Anzac Day, those aren't as big flag days. Like, if you're Australia, if you saw someone flying the flag from their house, it would just be an assumption like, oh, don't go near that person. That's something. That's weird. That's odd. Like, maybe that's unearned.

Maybe they're fine. Maybe it's great. But it's weird and it's off putting. And in America, they're everywhere. And so I have- It could be anyone. You just see a house with a flag and my brain just goes to, oh, what kind of a weird? No, no, they're probably the normal person. Right. Yes. They're just flying a flag. It's all good. Yeah. My kid watches a YouTuber that plays Geo-guessor, right? And the joke is always like, he's just like, oh, I love it when it's the United States of America because you guys put your flags everywhere. You put him on your house. You put them on your house. You put them on your mailbox you know yeah question nine this hour long quiz um australian correspondent wrote this

wonderful blog was surprised about the toilets not that the water goes the other way but that very surprised that so many american toilets are lacking this crucial button oh interesting wow i don't know and i'm going to get In some toilets we have it here where it's like a small flush and a big flush. That's it. It's the small flush, big flush button. Yeah, well, because you're like, well, what do you do if you pee? You just flush all that you have a huge...

We're America. You do a big poop flush, even if you just peed a little bit. All of our toilets have that. We need to conserve water here for everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I see. We have a lot of water restrictions. But it is also called the half flush, not the small flush.

Yeah, that's true. Half flush. So I've just got one more, but it's a sort of, a little lightning roundy sort of thing. That's question number 10. And again, thank you, Aaron Holmes, for writing 50 weird things about the USA as a witness by an Aussie.

She was surprised that Americans do not use cutesy shortened words for everything. Oh, yes. We say university. We don't say uni. We say barbecue, not a skipper. We, I'll give you the, so I'm going to give you the, that was good.

Okay, so I'm going to give you, Karen, I'm going to give you the shortened, cutesy, Australian word. Okay. And you tell me what it is short for. Just lightning, just take your best guess. What jumps into your head? And then Bill and Danny can correct you when and if you're, all right? I hope we know him. First one.

Salvo. Salvo. A goodwill store, donation store, charity store. Good, but it's short for. Salvation Army. Salvation Army. Salvation Army. Yes, very good. Sonny's. Sunnlasses.

Sunglasses. Maccas? McDonald's. McDonald's. Yep. Okay. Bizzo. It's not Bizarzzo. Like a store? I don't think so. I think it's Danny and Bill. You want to take crack at it?

Do you know Bizzow? I've never heard anyone say Bizzow. Oh, really? I would have assumed it was short for business, but beyond that. I got nothing. It's business, but it's like none of your business, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's probably some Queensland nonsense.

Oh, interesting. Okay, all right, good. X-E. X-E. X-E. X-E. Ex-y. Ex-y.

What I like about Maccas is it's not very ex-y. Oh, excellent. Oh, no, I like about it. It's not very expensive. It's not very expensive. Excey, expensive. This one, I like this one, Mazi. Ooh, Mazz.

Mazzie. Mazzie. They're very annoying. Mm-hmm. Oh, mosquito. Yes, yes, nice. And then also, I'm just, this is incredible. Spag Bowl.

It is spaghetti bolognese. Pagetobol and Aes. Spat ball. Spag ball. Yes. Spag bowl. It's so common in Australia. It's virtually a national dish.

And we have our own weird version of it, I'm sure. Oh, yeah, for sure. Right, right, right. But if any, like, if the Italian came in, you'd be like, have some spaghetti bolognais. We're like, yeah, what's wrong with you? This is disgusting. Nobody hates Italian food more than an Italian person

from, like, one village over. It's just inedible. Disgusting. What, you put three tomatoes in there? Blah! It's two and a half. But yeah, we definitely have very... Australian spaghetti bolognese

is possibly the most ubiquitous dish in Australia. Right, right, right. The thing I want to point out with this, right, I think some people don't quite get, like, the extent to how this language is used in Australia. Like, we call firemen fireies, right? It's a fiery. Uh-huh.

And people are like, yeah, sure, colloquially, you call them fireies. And it's like, no, no, no. The news the other day was talking about a large, very serious bush fire and it's like the fire

continues to burn overnight 10 fireies have been sent to the scene like it's not it's not just like oh yeah sure

whatever when you're chilling with your friends you'd call them a chippy no a carpenter is just a chippy

all the time I love it I love it I think yeah I think it's great it's great it's like living in Sanrio land or something

phenomenal anyway yes that was sorry it's like it's 40 minutes later. Fortunately, that's all I got. So I'll step away now.

Thank you. Yeah, thank you so much. All right, let's take a quick break. We deserve it. And we'll be right back. Whether you own a bustling hair salon, a painting company that just landed a big job, or the hottest new.

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

Find us at constantpodcast.com or wherever you get your podcasts. You're listening to Good Job Brain. Smooth puzzles. Smart trivia. Good job, brain. All right, well, I think while we're still on the Australia track, mine follows up a little bit. A lot of the things that when people think of Australia, one thing that people jump to pretty quickly is the wildlife, especially the horrible, deadly kinds.

Yes. And I always wonder, how deadly does an animal have to be before it gets a reputation? What does it need to have done? So years ago, very briefly, I studied and worked at Taronga Zoo, our local, very nice, fancy zoo. Yes. And there were three ways that you would rate animals based on how much interaction a zookeeper was allowed to have with them, like whether they could go into the enclosures and stuff.

And there was basically one rating for no danger, one rating for could hurt you, and the other for could kill you, don't go in there while the animals are in there. and this was in captivity, obviously, so it's a bit different. But I wanted to dive into how accurate some of these ratings are and whether our fear levels match up to the actual danger levels. So I've called this the Endangering Species List. Cute, oh my gosh. And what I'd like to do, I'm going to just name an animal,

possibly an Australian one with a bad reputation, maybe not. And I want you to rank its danger level. and the best way that I found to do this, it sounds a bit grim, but how many recorded deaths have been officially attributed to it? So it's slightly different from the zoo ratings. I would like you, almost like a traffic light system. Green light, amber light, red light. Never killed anyone, has killed someone, or, oh no, it's killed so many people, don't go near it.

Okay, okay, okay, okay. Amber light. So, for example... I call it yellow light. You're crazy. See, I would normally call it an orange light. I was trying to be universal. Okay.

What format would you like? Oh, let's write down. Let's write down. Okay, sure. Yeah, yeah, okay. The Australian freshwater crocodile. Wait, I didn't account... For the pens not working?

No, I didn't account for, you know, my brain not working. So I don't know where I put the pencil in my various fiddlings. All right. Answers up when you're ready. Australian freshwater crocodile. Well, from what I can see, we've got Chris with Amber. Oh, whoops, sorry, I was writing down the number. That's okay.

Amber, red, 1,722. And we've got green. Karen is correct. There are zero fatal freshwater crocodile attacks on record. Oh, you said freshwater. Freshwater. Well, that was my clue. All right, so, yeah, those ones are a bit smaller.

they're quite docile. I have apparently gone swimming with them. They didn't tell us until afterwards. Oh. They're pretty chill. It's just like most animals. It's a don't step on them and they won't do anything to you. So with that in mind,

I think I know what your answers are going to be for the Australian saltwater crocodile. What color are we going for for that one? I'm sticking to my guns. I'm just going to stick with amber still. We've got one amber from Chris and two. two reds. This one is a big old red. They are big, they are scary. They claim a couple of victims per year, so well over 100 officially on record. Strangely, one of the interesting things

about this is that by the official records, about 50% of attacks are fatal, except in Australia where it's only 25%. Maybe we count an attack differently. I'm not sure. I will say it is difficult for some of these, especially the more vicious animals, to get good official records, because sometimes if a person has a bite taken out of them, it can take a long time to identify what bit them. For example, like, Karen, you're a shark person, right? And one of the things for, I couldn't put any sharks on this list because it's so hard for them to identify what type of shark has ever bitten anyone.

They're not like doing like teeth mark analysis at the CSI labs. Yeah. A little bit. Okay. How about the killer whale slash orca? I feel like they've gone on a rampage more recently. I should have, haven't they? I can also just specify when I was looking at these numbers,

I was looking for the wild, not captivity. Okay. I'm going to go with Green. I think bad reputation. I think they're going to get even worse. Amber. Yeah, I'm going to end it too. for Amber, Chris for Green.

This one, at the moment, still a big old green. All right. No official killer whale deaths in the ocean. There have been some attacks, you're right, and they have been a bit more feisty lately with boats, but none of these attacks have been fatal.

Resulted in death, yeah. The only four killer whale attacks on record were all in captivity, three of them, the same whale. SeaWorld. I read a crazy story, Recently, some dude snuck into SeaWorld. This is a while ago. At night, his plan was to go skinny dipping in the killer whale tank. And he died because the killer whale ate him. Well, not ate him, but did him. This is a surprising number of captivity stories with a lot of these animals. It is baffling the ideas that people get into their heads. All right. Next one. Grizzly bear. Grizzly bear. I feel. I feel. I feel. like grizzlies famously are the bad are the mean ones that's why they're so grizzly oh i thought the

round bears were the i don't believe any animal mistake yeah i don't really know what the definition of amber is but i'm saying amber it's like we're saying like probably happened at some point okay we will know amber when we get to an amber because grizzly bear definitely are red they have hundreds of fatal attacks on record to be they're still probably not as many as you would think some of the numbers again vary but roughly 155 seemed like they could be confirmed since records began for them.

Polar bears and black bears definitely contribute to bear attack numbers as well but Grizzlies were the definite winners. Okay, how about the panda? The giant panda. They just accidentally killed their own babies before sitting on them but I don't think

I don't think they've killed any humans before. Karen's gone green, Chris has gone green. I have written I've written green and then in brackets one sat on someone in captivity. You are all correct that it is green. Zero fatal panda attacks in the wild and in captivity as well. A couple of nasty bites. Oh, don't look it up.

I saw some pictures by mistake. But yet again, people possibly falling in a couple definitely sneaking into enclosures at the Beijing Zoo. It did not go well for them. Why? Yeah. I get it. They're cute. Still, all right, I had to throw this one in because it's good job, Brain.

Beaver. Oh, man, oh, man, oh, man. How afraid should you be of beavers? Okay, I keep saying Amber, and I'm going to put it again for this one, because I feel like this is one of those things your people are like, because you see a crocodile, you're not going to get up in that crocodile's business. You're going to leave, you know, but you see a beaver, maybe you think, oh, it's so cute, I can pet it, I can take it.

at home. He can be my friend. He can build me a bridge in my backyard. He does build me a bridge. A bridge across the river sticks. Because they disrespect the beaver. Yeah. Amber. She got Karen Red, Chris Amber. Red, and then in brackets, all food poisoning. It's all bad batches of ice cream. This one, beaver is a solid amber. Because there has been one fatal beaver attack on record.

Do we know the details? A case was a man in Belarus. I think he was taking photos something like that and land. Beaver just sort of attacked him and very unluckily, one of the places that it bit him was a major artery. Yeah, I was just going to

say it. That's the teeth, yeah. Just bad luck. Lucky for the beaver. One of the other risks that come with beavers is that beavers can be rabies carriers. I couldn't find any official record, like any confirmation of someone being bitten by a rabid beaver and then developing rabies. But that can be a very

long process, so it's not impossible. Definite Amber on the beaver. That is a perfect example. I do not play Dungeons and Dragons, but that is just like, that is a critical hit in real life. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. That beaver rolled a 20.

Yep. Okay. How about scorpions? Ooh. Well, Chris had a whole segment about mailing scorpions. You can send them through the United States mail. want. Okay.

Karen's gone amber. Bill has gone green. Greem, I think that says. Greem. You're trying to truce it? If we're going scorpions as a whole, just if you aren't good at identifying your scorpions, consider it red. Scorpions have caused thousands of deaths, about 3,000 annually.

What? That's a lot. They're one of the top 10 killers. The only thing is, out of a bit under 2,000 species worldwide, only about 20,000. are venomous enough for humans to worry about. But those 25, they have done some damage. Oh my gosh. Wow.

From a sting. Yeah. Well, I guess it's not going to, like, shoot you with a gun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To my knowledge, we can't rule anything out. Okay. The emu. Oh, oh, oh.

The emu, I suppose, for people who say that, but no, it's emu. Not emu, emu. Emu, definitely. I was reading about the emu wars in a show. Australia. I've finally done my research on that as well. I have not written red yet. I've written Amber so much.

Oh, you trust all of these animals so much. I do. I do. I think I have a trustworthy, yeah. Okay, Karen's gone red. Billy's gone green. I've written green is the Emerald Isle. I know that Billy knows the answer to this because I've looked it up several times. Emu's absolutely zero.

Oh, good. People talk about them. Then they say, look at how Dane. dangerous these birds are, but anytime you find them on a list, it is look at how much they could kill someone. It is never, they have killed someone. They are sweethearts. And I knew this, I looked this up because I remember in my childhood, like going on to farms

with emus, hugging them, just hanging out with them. And it was never a worry. And so I wondered, why did my parents allow this? And so I looked it up. And it's because as long as you're not horrible to them, they won't be horrible to you. even casuaries only one person has been recorded as killed by a wild cassowary they deserve it they have a really bad rep cassovers have a really bad rep they're like oh yeah they could and like claw you and pecking you and i'm sure they could they just don't yeah yeah i have to i have to be the ignorant

american here because karen clear knows what cassowary is i'm sure i'm gonna be the one speaking for all the listeners that are like what in god's name is a cassoware okay casawaris are in nor in Queensland and I think Indonesia as well. They are sort of like an emu, but a little bit sturdier, a little bulkier, a little bit more pretty. They've got sort of blue on them, and they look just a little bit more like a dinosaur. Yeah. Wow.

You know how every time people talk about like Jurassic Park, they say, that's not what a velociraptor looks like. They actually looked like this, and that could basically be a picture of a cassowary. Oh, nice. It's like a peacock ostrich dinosaur. And they've got big, big talons on their feet. It seems like in the 1950s, actually. an ornithologist wrote that there were many records of people being killed by cassowaries.

And then people repeated that over the years, but he never sourced his information. Citation needed. He did it. Yeah, he's a mass murder. He's a serial killer. And he's like, actually, it was casuaries the whole time. Several of my ex-girlfriends were murdered by a cassowary. Trust me, I'm an ornithologist.

Okay, another one. Let me know if, I don't know how much experience you have with these ones. Komodo Dragons. Oh, God, there was this old movie called The Freshman starring Marlon Brando and Ferris Bueller. What's his name? No, you got it. It was about Komodo Dragons. It's like there's poison.

I'm giving them a big old green. Red. I don't trust those guys, but I don't hate it over. Just Amber. We got one. I've got the spread. Okay. Yeah, I've got a bit of everything. And this time, the correct response is somewhere between green and amber, most likely amber.

When I really dug into it, I could only find actual news reports about two. But a lot of the sources say, oh, there have definitely been five. I could not find any reference to what these others were. Wow. I appreciate the thoroughness. Considering that they are meant to be one of the scariest reptiles on Earth. It's pretty dang low. We went to a zoo

and we got to do a behind the scenes encounter with Komoda Dragons once and the zoo keepers carried shields like full on riot shields with them when they went in there. Yeah. And you're right, the whole do they have poison or anything?

That's been a question about Komodo Dragons for a while. Are they venomous? Or is it that they just have really dirty teeth and they spread bacteria? It's been an ongoing question for a lot of people. And I just have two more for you. All right.

So again, let me know if these ones need any explanation. nation for what they are, or what they're known as, at least. The Irikanji jellyfish. That one familiar. I don't know jellyfish. The irikungi jellyfish is a teeny tiny one. It's about a centimeter long, I think, and that makes people quite afraid of it.

It comes around in northern, northeastern Australia, in the warmer months. It is every summer you basically can't go in the water in northern Queensland. I'm going, I'm going red. What? Well, you just told me you can't go in the water. I'm going red, the reddest red. I think these are tiny killers. I've written red, so red. Billy's gone super red, Karen.

And a red peer pressure. This is a very modest amber. It has been two. Two deaths. The interesting part of this is they are not great. You don't want to get stung by this. This is the one that comes with all sorts of horrible pain and feelings of impending doom.

And apparently 30% of stings result in some kind of serious complication like heart failure. One in five people end up on life support or similar. But they just don't die. They live in a constant state of impending doom and pain. Oh. Oh, no. And final one, the inland Taipan. Taipan.

What does that sound? That sounds so familiar. Is that like a weasley thing? It is a snake. I believe for context, I'm going to give you this context before you guess. They have more venom in them than any other snake. We get taught this in Australia, like, type an, it's venomous snake. What are we got?

I think this is a psych out. Karen Green, Billy Green, Chris, Amber, the world's most venomous snake, one bite, enough toxicity to kill 100 human adults. But it's a big fat zero. On record, no kills. because they live in the middle of the desert and they're flighters rather than fighters.

It's a Hail Mary. There are other kinds of typhans, the coastal typhan, or apparently they're the mean ones, they'll actually try to bite you. But wild inland typhans, even though they are technically potentially the most fatal,

I could only even find two cases of bites that happened. One of the victims didn't even get anti-venom or anything and he ended up fine in the end. Oh. Luckily, he, was the size of 101 men. A big meat man.

It's just fascinating. I just had to go into this because it really is true when you look up all of these lists of deadly animals, you always find this is how many people it could kill. But it turns out the vast majority of them follow the social contract. You don't bother me. I don't bother you. I find this really uplifting. I find it lovely to know that this is true about most animals. We need a good PR agency for these animals.

I am such an online emu advocate now. Danny, so you said you worked at the Taranga Zoo. Yes, super briefly. I was doing animal studies as a course, and they were one of the people who run it. And so as part of the course, you're learning, you're doing classes, but you also get to do prack work. So in America, there's a show on our National Geographic Channel that is a documentary. It's a series on all the ongoings of Taranga Zoo. Oh, really?

I watched all seasons of it. Oh, that's amazing. I did get one great job one day that I was working there, which was I had to feed the echidnas. That was fine. But one of the echidna's was brand new, and it wasn't really socialized yet. It had just come in injured from the wild. So it wasn't really used to people so much yet.

So my job was to put down all the trays of food, and then while it ate, pat that echidna. That was my job for about an hour. Oh, my God, what an honor. You get some highlights. I'm going to get back to the grind. I got another two hours of Pat and Akidna's coming up after lunch. They really work you hard here in Taronga Zoo. All right.

Well, I have a quiz as well, funnily enough, for this all quiz. That was your assignment, yes. And I will preface this. This is a very silly quiz. It's just, it's such a silly quiz. quiz, but I think this is either going to take us five minutes or like 10 hours. It's a silly quiz. No, but it's 10 hours. I'm not going to try and give you any context for this quiz. I'm going to, I'm going to hope that the first question, if you can get it, will be enough to give you the

concept of what we're doing here. First two, by the end of the second question, you'll get the whole format, right? Okay. Okay. This is what, I think this is ostensibly buzz in, but I think it's more you can work together if you need to. You can discuss this amongst yourselves. It's a 10 question quiz. Question one. Soda, trivia, popular, inoculation. Now, Danny knows the answer to this question. It's not technically a question because I just said four things.

Yep. Got it. Pop quiz, hot shot. Pop quiz, hot shot. Oh, this is why quiz is so good at connections. So soda is pop, trivia is a quiz, popular is hot, inoculation is a shot. Pop quiz, hot shot. Wow, oh, amazing.

Wonderful. Question two. A failed production. Trivia, Beatles hairstyle. Flop, flop, mop. Chris? Flop quiz, mop top. Flop quiz, mop top.

I hate you. All right That is the 10 question quiz So let's get on to question three Question three A top level domain A car thief's butcher Oh my gosh

A top level domain A car thief's butcher Uh okay These gradually turn more and more into cryptic crossword clues as well. Right, right, okay, okay, let's work together. Oh, I heard it, wait, I think I heard a nay.

I heard a nay, Danny. Is it a dot biz chop shop? Dot biz chop shop. Oh my gosh. Dot biz is a, is a top level internet domain, something dot biz. Yep. And a car thief's butcher, somewhere where you would chop up old stolen cars is a chop shop.

Chiefs, Butcher. All right, we're on to question four of this fantastic quiz. Champagne and orange juice. It's easy for a hunter. One more time for people playing along at home. Champagne and orange juice. It's easy for a hunter. Champagne and orange juice, I want to call Buck's Fizz.

See, that's the thing. Whoa, we have another name for it. We call it a mimosa. Ah. This is why you need to work together. I'm sure some of these are slightly region. Yeah, so what do you? you call it a bucks fizz yes

bucks fizz it's easy for a hunter shot be shot um hot shot bucks fizz pot shot okay what so pot shot this is so unhinged yeah it really is

pot shot uh it's just you know you take pot shots at something uh and it's either the two definitions are either like it's criticism at a random target or it's like an easy shot like oh it's just taking pot shots The origin of the phrase pot shot is literally a shot that you would take to fill your pot it is if you're hunting for food

not for trophies which therefore you don't need to preserve anything you can just shoot it however you want An easy shot for a hunter This is the etymology of the phrase pot shot Wow thank you There you go so we have bucks fizz pot shot All right question five

An ex monarch is a dandy dressed all in black An ex monarch is a dandy dressed all in black All right, well, a dandy has to be a fop, right? Liz, Liz, Elizabeth. Yeah, an F-A-P is a dandy in black. An ex-monaut is a dandy dressed all in black. Goth. Goth-Fop.

So where are we? But Queen Liz, Gough-Fop. Queen Liz, Gough-Fop. Oh, my gosh. All right. We're doing well. getting into it. Okay. You're halfway through.

Oh, the next one's nonsense. Oh, this one's on. Oh, this one coming up is not. Yeah, the rest of all being very reasonable. The next one's, the next one's stretching it a little bit. They shake the buds of May, the alien exclaimed on one of his happy days. This one's a little bit harder to construct. Rough winds, shake the, rough winds.

Does that shake the darling buds? They shake the buds of May, the alien exclaimed on one of his happy days. If it's happy, days. Is this a reference to Mork? What did he say what was his catchphrase? I thought it was Narnu Narnu, but that doesn't make sense. Oh yeah, no. It isn't

No, is it? That's the thing he says, but it's not an exclamation of his. Oh, boy. Oh, yes. Oh, oh, oh, is it, it's um. Yes, Chris. Ready? Rough wins, Shaz-Bot. Rough wins, Shaz-Bot. Okay. This is

see, this is a fun quiz. You don't need to defend it. We're on question seven. Here we go. Put an end to Gen Z charisma with a silk tie. A silk tie. Put an end to Gen Z charisma with a silk tie. Gen Z.

Yeah, Chris. Stop Riz, Kravat. Oh, not quite. I want something that fits the rhyme a little bit. Ascot. Stop Riz, Ascot. Ascott. I'll love it.

Okay, there are only three left. Here's question eight. I like this clue Not quite a duke Not quite Wi-Fi Ooh All right Not quite a duke

Not quite Wi-Fi Earl V-count Marquis Does require a little bit of An understanding of Anglicized pronunciations Oh

Have they pronounced Marquise strangely Is it Marquis hot spot It is Marquise hot spot Oh, yes, the traditional ways You should say that that position is as a Marquis. Marquist, hot spot. Number nine, and this does require a little bit of regional wording,

so Danny will have to, you have to work together for this one. All right. Okay, okay. A place to buy second-hand toppings for your Philadelphia staple. Cheese, Philadelphia, cheesecake. Second-hand toppings. Whiz is the topping. What's the second-hand store?

One of the terms that we have for a second-hand store. Upshop? Opshop. Cheese Whiz, Opshop? Cheese-Wiz, Upshop. And our final question. It's a long one. I'm bursting to see Aquafina's new movie without a woman,

then a single Charlie Sheen parody film. Oh no, why do we keep asking about this Charlie Sheen parody film that I don't No. One more time for people playing along. I'm bursting to see Aquafina's new movie without a woman than a single Charlie Sheen parody film. Chris, did you buzz in? What do you think? Pop quiz, hot shot.

Pop quiz, hot shot. Quiz lady without a woman. Ah. And Hot shots. Hot shot. You got me. There we go. So that's my incredibly silly quiz.

Pop quiz, hot shot. Oh my gosh. It's like a high school cafeteria. Teria clap in a moment. Well done. It was tough trying to find that many things that sort of fit, though, that half of them don't even rhyme. They just sort of fit the shape. It's a bit of assonance reliance there, but I'm all happy.

No, that was, that was, that was, that was tremendous. 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. All right, I have a game, and there's some theater and drama right now I'm them doing. So on a piece of paper, I'm writing Good Job Brain.

You see it? I wrote it. Yep. Yes. I'm going to make them into each letter is going to have its own little tab. I'm ripping it out. And as I'm ripping it out, I will tell you the rules of this game. Chris, it's very similar to, you might remember when we were at Sporkel Khan in the big pub quiz competition.

There was a round where it was asking you trivia questions. They're creating the questions as they go by picking letters out of a bag. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So for example, it would be tell me the best selling musical artist that starts with a letter blank. And you draw out a random. letter and so that's the game we're going to play you guys will be working together i will be asking these questions where name me this that starts with the letter i'll draw the letter you guys

work together and give me an answer great all right all right here we go so tell me what is the largest country that starts with i'm praying for that oh there's two of them in there there's three of them in there with the letter B. I think it's Brazil. Oh, yeah, Brazil's got to be the biggest B. That was very anti-climatic. Let's do another one. Well, I mean, you had two, there's two Bs and two O's

and anyway. Well, you know, look, we started off, we started off with an easy one, you know, we're getting rolling. Here we go. D, largest country that starts with D. Oh, there aren't as many of those. Oh. Denmark.

I would have been wondering if it was Democratic Republic of Congo. It depends on whether we count that as like a D country. That's pretty solidly in its name. Okay. Because, yeah, you have to do it to. Dem rep, what else is there?

Anything else sneaky, hide, because then there's also like Denmark, do we include overseas territories where it suddenly gets like a thousand times bigger? Does it own Greenland? They own Greenland? They do, I think, right? So if we count Greenland as part of Denmark,

it's suddenly... Denmark. It's Denmark. It's Denmark. It's Denmark. It is. The Democratic Republic of Congo. No Greenland.

No listen to me. Never listen to me. Now, is that, are we including Greenland? In this quiz, if you did draw the G, I have both answers. I have Greenland and Germany. Depending on if you count Denmark. So on the list, they also list Kingdom of Denmark, which is Greenland plus Denmark. That's interesting.

That's not really a country. Do you know why I mean? Yeah, yes. Okay. All right, here we go. Name me the biggest worldwide box office hit that starts with the letter. Why not you called to Todd Tane? Are we adjusting for inflation?

Yes, we are. Letter A. I'm holding it up, so you know I'm not tuning. I think we get another chill one, right? Well, I feel like there's two to choose between one I'm leaning more towards than the others. Which one are you thinking? I'm thinking of Avatar. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Box Office sensation. And it's, the second Avatar was massive as well. Either that or an Avengers. Oh, did Avengers knock Avatar off its throne? Did like Endgame... I don't think that Avengers did. I thought that Avatar... I think Avatar was still was still killing it. I don't

remember where the sequel ended up, but... Maybe we just sit with Avengers? Sorry, with Avatar. You should hedge our bets and say Avatar. unless we get asked for more information. Say Avatar. It is Avatar 2009. If it was one of the harder ones I would have given you the year, it is Avatar, correct.

All right. What is the best-selling individual book to date in any language? Best-selling copy sold, so not number of books printed, right? Or currently only. Okay, sure. Does not include reference books, like thesaurus or dictionaries. And I'll tell you now, this list does not include any religious or government text. Okay.

So no Bible, Quran. Best-selling individual book to date that starts with a letter. Oh. Oh. Oh. That's not easy. That's not easy. what is some

and I'll tell you there's a number in the title oh okay all right okay um Oceans 11 Oceans 11 the novelization The junior novelization The picture book

Old Possum's book of 13 Magical Cat number in the title Okay Classic It's a classic I bet it is I bet it is I bet it is. Orange, comma,

eight clockwork. A is a number. 1967. 19607. It starts with O. Is it like a, is it like, what numbers?

What numbers? What numbers? What numbers? Oh, oh, okay. One hundred years of, one flu over the cuckoo's nest? One full over the cuckoo's nest. Or a hundred years of solitude.

I'm going to go cuckus nest. 100 years of Solitude. You didn't let me finish. You didn't let me finish. I'm going to go for Cuckoo's Nest as the one that we should disregard. All right. Next one.

I went through an official database to get this information. What is the most popular first name for baby boys in 2021 using birth registration data in Britain and Wales? Oh, okay. So basically, what is the most popular boy's name? It is the letter J J It's either

Yeah, it's either like John or it's like Jaden or something I'd be saying I think my first pick would be going to James maybe But now that I think about it I haven't heard of James in a while Everyone loves being called James John like John is a classic

But James is a spanner in the works Real problem is I don't know how Wales spells any of their names Ah they do yon I think you've got to go, John, right? We've got to, surely, surely, right? It's John. It seems fair.

A classic. A timeless classic. The good thing about, like, this registry is, because it's Britain and Wales, the names are not insane like the American baby names are. Like, they're still pretty classic, you know, getable names. It is at number 13, Jack. But that's just the short name of John. Yeah.

For the girl's side, like Evie and Everettable. are two different names. They're counting what is on the birth. I'm shocked, to be honest. I'll tell you, number one is Noah. Noah. So if you drew the N. Wow.

All right. Tell me, based on an inner brand study, what is the most recognized global brand that starts with... While you're picking out a letter, can I do my Noah bit? Yeah. Here's my Noah.

It's actually most people just don't, they're not sure of what they're kid's name is going to be yet and the doctor comes in and says do you have a name no uh and then they just write it down they leave it's a it's a tragedy according to an inner brand study most recognized global brand dated at 2020 that starts with n the letter n Nike oh you think Nike's going to beat Nokia it is 20 me i think Nike's better than Nokia that's that's from the 1997 trivial pursuit card that's true Nintendo is a pretty recognizable brand

it is worldwide but I mean Nintendo Nike netfl not Netflix oh that's interesting I mean Netflix could be good but I mean I feel like that might be localized to just certain things oh my gosh there's so many Nestle why do companies start with an all the time come on companies make this easy for us you guys said it that's one of them oh I'm sure we do okay I'll I'll say a Nintendo

because if it's not Nintendo and I don't say it because if it is Nintendo I don't say Nintendo you're very embarrassed but you guys can pick whatever you want I was impressed with Netflix I like Nintendo because I said it but Netflix was pretty good because everybody has net like Netflix is in all the countries where all the people are you know yeah you know what I think Netflix so is Nike oh you were right right off the bat first first first first thing Nike number 15 number think that makes sense because I think that you everybody has to wear shoes I mean even if they're not wearing genuine nikes it's like you know like all around the world like you know that that that that swish and that shoe and that's an aspirational brand you want to have yeah yeah not recognizing Nintendo is still a first world problem yes yeah yeah well good job that is my game that was man like I tore up a lot of little

pieces of paper and we didn't even really draw that many we're nearing the end of our show Bill and Danny, where can people find you? So we have two major shows that people can go and check out. We have a show called Escape This Podcast, where we create audio escape rooms, so full of puzzles and narrative and little adventures. And we have guests come on and play them. There are episodes. If you just search, Escape This Podcast, Good Job Brain,

you'll find the episodes that you have been guests on. They're great starting points. People can jump in. Any episode is a great place to start. We have a second show as well, which is called Solve This Murder where we do murder mysteries

where one of us will create an original murder mystery and the other one will try and take on the role of detective and solve it which is tough because literally it's just like well you're at the scene

Poirot, what do you do now? Um I ask is the potter here? Did he do it? Was it an icicle? Is there a puddle of the water and no murder record?

Yeah, no they are full on complicated murder mysteries. A loop on the ground. Exactly. They're not quite loud. Not like a lateral thinking puzzle. And that's been, that's great. So there's a whole backlog of those you can check out as well.

Danny crafts all of these insane narratives, puzzles, challenges so well. It's so amazing. Thank you. Danny, how do you do it week after week? This is a very good question. It just turns out that there's a lot of rooms that exist. And when you have lots of different rooms, it turns out that different puzzles or the same puzzles in different enough forms can present themselves. It's your love language.

Oh, and I want to also recommend a show that Bill Nanny, you guys were on, and then I was on a drunkard's walk, a drunkard's walk podcast by Matt and Jethro. Really awesome people. I had a really good time. Drunkards Walk, the premise is a guest comes on and gives you a random Wikipedia destination, and you're trying to traverse and get to another Wikipedia. destination. It's a lot of fun. I know what did you guys pick? We were going to, we had to find our way to free sell. Free sell the game? Yeah. Oh, I of course picked Castorium. Oh, fair enough. Of course. It had to do Castorium. It's all right. And I was really, I was really jazz because someone has done up the Castorium wiki page. It has been updated. It used to just have a picture of a

beaver, but now there's like more pictures and there's a lot more juice. No, I won't. in that Wikipedia page show, Drunkers Walk, please check it out. And that's our show. Thank you all for joining us all the way from Australia. Thank you, Chris, joining us all the way from California. Thank you all for listening. That's our season finale.

We'll be back in the spring. Hope you guys learned a lot about animal danger PR about things that rhymes with pop and quiz and hot and shot. Australia versus U.S. And also things in the middle. You can find us on all major podcast apps and on our website, good job, brain.com. This podcast is part of Airwave Media Podcast Network.

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