Good Job, Brain! - 267: Large and In Charge

Episode Date: March 26, 2024

Big facts about big things! Biggest Hollywood premiere! Guinness Records! How the Dutch keep smashing massive toppling domino records year after year, even in the face of national bird drama! And get out your pencils because it's time to play "30 Seconds to Glory" with a BIG theme, and Colin quizzes us about the biggest trends... in 1900. 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, Funky fresh fan, fascinated by fascinators. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show, an offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 267, and of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and We are your Symphony of Simply Sincere Sinked Simions. I'm Colin. And I'm Chris. All right.

Our first, actually, of the season, our corrections, clarifications in our, I think, episode 254, our big road trip episode. I had a quiz about Australian roadside attractions. Big deal there. Australia loves their novel. T roadside attractions, and one of the questions I asked involved UG, UG Boots, UG Boots. And I think the clue is something like, oh, this is one of Australia's biggest, like, exports. That is incorrect, because UG of Australia, the brand where we buy the UG Boots and the Ugg stores and the UG website, is not even Australian. It is owned by a California company.

The shoes are made in Asia or somewhere else, not Australia. That's the point, not Australia. And get this, the ugg boot in Australia is a generic term. It's like us with cola. Got it. Got it. And so one very smart, very clever company is like, okay, well, we're going to copyright UG, and they would go after anybody who's selling UG boots on, like eBay, on the internet, and was like, hey, you're violating the copyright because we own UG, but UG is generic in Australia. That's just the style of boot. It blew my mind.

I was like, oh, my God, UG is not even from Australia. That feels to me, they were totally happy to let people think they're Australian. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, they're not going out of their way to. disabuse people of the notion that they are American. And you know, so many brands do this, Hog and Dawes. You're like, ooh. Oh, it's just made up.

Yeah, it's made up. All right. Well, without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot. Oh, here I have a box of random versions of Trivial Pursuit Card. I just put my hand in and I drew two. Here we go. We got silver screen Oh, I love it

This is like a card from 80s Talking about an even earlier time of me Yeah, yeah And the other card is 1993 Okay, let's do silver screen first And really beat ourselves down And you guys have your barnyard buzzers

Ready, uh, buzzin And let's answer some questions Blue Edge What Baseball Stadium was the setting for the climax of 1962's Experiment in Terror. Wow. Colin, name a stadium. Yankee Stadium.

Incorrect. Chris. Fenway Park. It is Candlestick Park. Oh, right. Okay. The pink question. What film?

featured ferocious talking trees, winged monkeys, and sleep-inducing flowers. Oh. Chris. The Wizard of Oz. Wizard of Oz. Yellow Wedge. What star of My Fair Lady was once described as a well-groomed Englishman with an air of effete verility?

Chris. I mean, it's got to be Rex Harrison. Rex Harrison. Professor Higgins Purple Greyish Puse Wedge What have they got a name for Way Out West

Oh What have they got a name for Way out west What have they got a name for It's way out west I bet we're going to kick ourselves Go for it. What do you got, Chris? Games

dames dames and dames and gams it is wind and rain and fire oh okay I don't know what and they don't explain

the reference no that's maddening we'll just never know yeah right again people shouting at their stereos green wedge what characters were paid

$25 dollars a piece every time they swoop down on Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. Colin. The monkeys, the, the monkeys, the, the, the, the monkeys. The winged monkeys. Oh, this is kind of touching into my quiz later. Okay. Orange Wedge, who played the Wicked Witch of the West?

Oh, this is a good one. That is a good one. Yeah. It is. I've heard the name before. It's, of course. I mean, God, obviously, it's Edina Menzell. I hate you. Tell me I'm wrong.

Tell me how I'm wrong. Now, I don't know the name of the lady. Not Define Gravity over here. It is Margaret Hamilton. Okay, okay. Margaret Hamilton. Heard it. Wouldn't have been able to call it.

But if you gave me a multiple choice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe. For sure. All right, not bad. Yeah, I think we, I think we did pretty well there. I bet we're going to ace this 1993. Here we go. Peak Wedge. What baseball owner got $58 million from Congress to help bail out his troubled Tampa shipyard? Oh.

Hmm. Oh. Oh. Oh. Colin. I think that was George Steinbrenner. Yes, and I'm wearing a Seinfeld shirt. Yeah, yes, that's right. Yeah, George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees, but with many, many business interests. That's one of those questions where at Pub Trivia, they'd read it out, and the three of us would just be like, Colin, just literally write down whatever you want. Just name a person. Yellow Edge, what cable TV cult classic changed hosts polarizing cyberspace in the Great Joel versus Mike Flame War?

Oh. Colin. That is, of course, mystery, science, theater, 3,000. Yes. Yes. Uh, moving on. Purple Wedge, what sit-down comics spent six and a half years as Conan O'Brien's late night second banana.

Chris. Wait, Andy Richter. Correct. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Like, as of that point, it was probably correct.

Orange Wedge, which of the Ten Commandments made the, it into the Black Bible Chronicles as Don't Waste Nobody Chris Oh, I don't know the 10 command Are they looking for a number? They're looking for the commandment. Oh, thou shalt not kill.

Correct, correct, correct. Okay. Green Wedge, who accepted the cabinet position Bill Clinton initially offered to Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood. Oh. Oh, that's a good one. Ooh, Chris.

Is it Janet Reno? Yes, it is. All right, last question for Indigo Wedge. What supermodel painted the primitive art cover of Billy Joel's album, River of Dreams? I mean. In the middle of the night. Chris is his then-wife, Christy Brinkley. Correct, Christy Brinkley.

Safe bet. I wonder if she gets like, royalties from that or anything or if she got paid or if it's just kind of a spousal favor. Interesting. Yeah. All right. Good job, everybody. This week is inspired by our dear friend Shivam. Shivam and I go way back because we both were interns, kind of our first office jobs. Glorified daycare when we were interns and now we're adults with kids. And he's a big fan of Good Job Brain. and he tweeted at Chris with a suggestion. And his son wanted to hear something about world's largest,

the nation's biggest, cool facts about big things. So this week we're large and in charge. I will get us started here with some world's largest, world's biggest. On the season opener of Good Job Brain this year, I had a quiz for you guys where we went all the way back to the year 2012 and answered some questions, see how well our memory held up. I had so much fun with that one that I decided I would take you guys even further back in time for today's quiz. So keeping with the theme of largest, biggest, et cetera, I have a quiz. for you guys about some superlatives from the year 1900. So you're going to need to use all of your knowledge of history, culture, society,

everything you've learned over the years, may be forgotten. And make your best guess here. I'm not trying to trick you. There are no tricks on this one. These are straightforward questions. So this will be a write-down quiz here. Get out your writing implement. I would assume so many of non-natural man-made kind of records have all been broken.

Like pretty much all of them. That's a very safe assumption, Karen. And I've got a little bit of a grab bag here for you. So let's get ready. Grab your writing implement. Get your brains in 1900 mode. What was the largest city in the world in 1900? And when I say largest, I mean by population.

1900 largest city in the world most populous city it is not an obscure city certainly right absolutely still considered a global city sure okay okay 1900 what was the shape of the world in 1900 right right right that's kind of where I'm at right okay okay answers up oh Okay. Karen has written down Hong Kong. Chris has written down Paris. Geographically, Chris is closer. However, neither of you got it. In 1900, the largest city in the world was London. Okay. And I mean, and had been the largest city for a good while at that point. From around the 1820s, until it was surpassed by New York City. In 19. In 19.

1925, right around 1925, and prior to London, it was aging. Question, what is the current largest city? The current largest by population is Tokyo. Okay, wow. In 1900, what was the tallest human-made structure in the world? Oh. Mm, 1900. 1900.

Do you think Statue of Liberty taller than the Eiffel Tower? Is there, it must have to be like a building or a statue? Empire State is like Art Deco, so it has to be before that.

I love it. I love it. This is great. Yeah, bring in, as I say, all the knowledge to be here. Answers up. Chris says La Tour Eiffel. Karen says Sears, meaning the Sears Tower in Chicago. Chris has it. It is indeed the Eiffel Tower in Paris, but had kind of just squeaked in there about 11 years prior. Right. The Eiffel Tower completed in 1889 was the tallest human-built structure in the world for more than 40 years until the Chrysler building was completed in New York in 1930. And the Eiffel Tower took over the title from the Washington Monument. So a little ping pong there between the U.S.

It was for a while. So I was like, well, maybe that's what we're going on. Man, things weren't really tall back then. No, no. No, they were on the whole pretty short. All right. Well, we'll stick with, you know, tallest. So that was, you know, the tallest of all structures, human-built structures.

But let's get a little more focused here. In 1900, the tallest statue in the world was a 230-foot-tall sculpture of what figure? As of 1900. Now, this is one, Karen. I mean, talk about things changing quickly. Tallest statue in the world is one that has just been record after record after record over the last several decades. But it was pretty durable there for a while, at least in 1900. Tallest statue in the world, 230 feet tall, a little bit over, in fact, sculpture of what figure, Karen, maybe change your answer.

Self, second guessing. All right, answers up. Oh, I love it. I love seeing this here. All right. Karen has written Mary, meaning Virgin Mary, of course, I assume. Chris has written Buddha. Chris has it.

Chris is correct. That's right. As of in the year 1900. There were some big Buddhas. There were then. There are now. Yeah. One thing is true.

One thing is a constant in the tallest sculpture, tallest statue game. A lot of Buddhas in there. The Lishon. Giant Buddha in China, completed in 803, was the tallest statue in the world for more than 1,100 years. But Karen, I'm going to give you a little bit back here. So it was surpassed in 1941 when a statue of the Virgin Mary was completed in Mirabelle, France. Yes. in 1900, the largest ship in the world.

It was not the Titanic, had not been built yet. In 1900, the largest ship in the world was, same owners, however, it was the RMS Oceanic. How many passengers could the Oceanic carry? Closest to the mark, we'll get the point here. I don't even have like a ballpark. Do we know how many people were on the? Titanic? We do. Yeah, we do. I mean, we know, we know, we know how many died. We know how many died.

We know how many were on there. At least how many were ticketed. Well, I'm not going to throw out this number here that might. I have, I really have no idea. I have no. I don't, yeah, I don't know either. All right. This is going to be great. So I like that you guys have the same, the same limited information. How many passengers was it designed to carry? Wow. Okay. So I love when we get kind of these differences in magnitude here. Karen has. written down 5,042. Chris has written 25,000,

a good bit higher. The Oceanic was actually designed to carry 1,710 passengers. 1,700. Point to care in there. According to the stats I read, the breakdown

was 410, first class, 300 second class, 1,000 third class. Yeah. That's not bad. If you think about an airplane right now, a first class seat for every 10 or 15 a coach seats.

I guess what you mean in terms of the ratio. Right. Yeah. This is what first class is like one first class for two people in coach or economy or whatever. I like the way you think of that. All right. All right. Well, speaking of traveling in luxury.

All right. Well, close is out here with in 1900, who was the. richest person in the world who could lay claim to the largest bank account largest number of zeros um and uh last last name last name is fine if you if you want to just give me last name i will not penalize you if you can't pull the first name here 1900 that's a clue that's meta richest person in the world well as i say i'm not trying to trick you in any of these you're gonna have heard of this person. We got the Vanderbilts, the Carnegie's, the Rockefellers, the, but those are like

Americans, you know, this is going to, richest, richest person. You want a name or a title? I want a name. Oh, I want a name. Oh, I was going to be like, oh, the Sultan of Brunei, you know. Oh, right, right. I see what you're saying. Oh.

If I don't get this all. If I don't get this and this is it, I'll be shamed and humiliated. Why? Well, that's a clue. Why would he say that? Why would he say that? He's trying to get inside your head, Karen. Don't let him do it.

I'm going to write down what I write down plus one. And the price is write it. Okay. All right. All right. Answers up. Answer's up. Let's see.

What do we got? Karen has written Chase. Chris has written Vanderbilt. I love it. We're getting these famous family names. In 1900, the richest person in the world was John D. Rockefeller. Rockefeller. Yes, yeah, with just an unfathomable amount of money at the time and accounting for inflation.

Rockefeller, the bulk of his wealth coming from founding the standard oil company in the late 1800s. Rockefeller was surpassed by Carnegie. Oh. Well, thanks for stealing some of my questions. here. But it is my turn and my quiz. And here I have a collection of random Guinness Records. Guinness Records in a trivia quiz. This is a buzzin quiz. Get your barnyard buzzers out. We're large and in charge. World's largest blank. Here we go. Question number one. Other than their coffee milk, Rhode Island

natives also love their famous big animal-shaped roadside attraction that even got a cameo in dumb and dumber. This animal is probably the world's biggest of this animal. He even has a proper name. So what kind of animal is Mr. Nibbles Woodaway? Nibbles woulda. Oh my God. Do you know how hard I had to like try to keep this terrific? of like 10 minutes by myself yesterday. Nibbles, Woodaway.

Mr. Nibble, Mr. Woodaway. Ah, yes. Yeah, please, Mr. Woodaway was my father. Call me, call me Nibbles. I don't even know who buzz. Chris. Is it a beaver?

No, it is not a beaver. Oh, that was my guess. Gibbles, Woodaway is not a beaver, termite. It is. It is a, it is a termite. It is a, really? Yes. A giant, giant termite called the big blue bug.

It's blue. Originally it was purple. I think when you look at a termite under a microscope has like a purpleish, bluish, like indigo tint. Okay. The paint kind of just, you know, the sun kind of faded the purple away and just became blue and they just kind of ran with it. Is this a tongue and cheek statue?

Is it like, I mean, what is the significance? It's just a huge. It's a huge mascot for what used to be called the New England Pest Control Company. So it was like a roadside attraction. It's a giant termite that's blue that's like on top of their building. They dress him up. I mean, I assume it's a him. Nibbles Woodway.

They dress him up for like for Christmas, for different occasions. He wore a mask during COVID to support frontline. workers, so popular that the company, New England pest control, they changed their name to Big Blue Bug Solutions after the mascot. If you ever rewatch Dumb and Dumber, a big blue bug. All right, next question. Found in central Italy, the world's largest fruiting body of what was sold for $61,000 at auction, weighing around four pounds.

The world's largest fruiting body of what? Of what was sold at auction for $61,250. Defining body. That is the technical term. I mean, like, I'll tell you, it's not a fruit. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Colin. Is it a truffle?

It is a truffle, the world's largest truffle. is a fruiting body of the fungus variety. $61,000 dollar roos weighing around four pounds. You gave me the courage to press the buzzer by saying it's not a fruit. But I was kind of thinking like, what the heck would somebody pay? What food would somebody pay 60? Yeah.

Do you know, was it like bought by a restaurant to actually use in recipes or something? It was bought by someone in Taiwan. It's big. I mean, you don't need that much. You know what I mean? You really don't need that much. You don't need, in my opinion, you don't need more than $10,000 or $12,000 worth of trouble at any one time.

Question number three. The biggest Hollywood premiere is for what? 2015 film with 6,700 people in attendance. Wow. Hmm. Biggest Hollywood premiere in Hollywood. A little bit of a clarification. What theater can.

fit 6,000 people. It is actually three separate theaters all within like a quarter mile stretch in Hollywood. So it's the Chinese theater, the Dolby Theater, and the Disney's El Capitan, the restored. And they synchronized the premiere of this. So the premieres is with all three. They close down the block. Big fanfare. Oh my gosh.

I'm trying to think what came out in 2050. I'm going to take a guess. Was it Avengers Endgame? Incorrect. Jurassic World It was Star Wars Force Awakens Oh okay

Of course Of course Guinness World Record For Biggest Hollywood premiere All right My next question is kind of Scrat Ruined

from Colin segment But here it is Here's a question Of the top five tallest statues Currently three of them Are of what figure The answer is

Buddha But do we know what's number one? Does anybody know what's the tall? Who is the tallest statue? Is it Jesus H. Christ? I'm going to go to Jesus as well. It is not. It is Sardar Vali Patel.

I'm sorry if I pronounce it. Let me try it again. Sardar Vali Patel, one of the founders of modern India. Okay. Next question. What kind of animal is the world's largest living? invertebrate. Ooh.

Oh, largest. And I have a hint if you need it. Invertebrate. Invertebrate. No vertebrate. No vertebrate whatsoever. Yeah, I'm trying to think if it's like, you know, normal human scale or if I'm

overlooking some monster size. It's bigger than a human. Okay. Oh, okay. Oh, all right. And it's not one of those things where it's like one really, really long word. that if you bump, yeah, right, okay. It's like an animal.

Okay. Yes, okay. It's the gelatinous cube. You're close. You're close. Okay, all right, okay. Is it like a huge jellyfish or something? Yeah, I was going to say, like a big box jellyfish or something like that.

It also holds the record for the world's largest eyeball. Oh, is it the giant squid? Two answers for this. There's the giant squid, which is the longest. and there's also the colossal squid, which is the heaviest. They're close, but yeah, colossal squid also has the record for the biggest eyeball, which is the size of like a basketball. Folks, snakes don't creep me out that much.

Spiders, big spiders, don't really creep me up that much. I have a weird thing with eyes, like big eyes. So I remember like seeing, I met like a police person who was on a horse. And then when I'm standing close to the horse, I was like, This horse's eyeball is so big. Like, I mean, I couldn't, I just couldn't shake that. It, like, freaked me out. And then so when I think about the giant squid and the basketball, I, no, thank you.

Next question, we often joke about the, the largest ball of yarn or the largest ball of twine. Tell me, in what state could you find the actual world's largest ball of twine? It's a U.S. state, and there are two answers. and I can tell you why in a bit. Okay. Go for it. Illinois. Incorrect.

Take a stab, Chris. You got 149 chance now, buddy. What'd you say? California. It is Kansas and or Minnesota. Why the two? One, the one in Kansas is the largest ball of twine. The one in Minnesota is by one person.

So there's like in Kansas, it's like a community of people who worked on the ball. In Minnesota, it's one. person who worked on the ball, but yes. Take a look. They're like, they're not really balls. They're kind of like a mound. I mean, gravity has, has taken its toll. As it does on all of us. Yes, yes. Okay, next question. Last question. What country houses the world's largest aquarium? Where can you find the world's largest aquarium? Chris Australia

Incorrect but a very good guess Good guess I don't know It is in China I should have just said China When you get asked like Where's the largest We're tallest

You know this is your default answer Is to say China I should have just like China Do we know America's largest aquarium Is it Monterey Bay It is Atlanta It is

Also on the top largest aquarium list is the Living Seas with Nemo and friends from Disney World's Epcot. So I did some back of the napkin math. You know, I'm reading this and I was like, wow, 12.9 million gallons of water in these tanks. It's meaningless to me. I don't know how big that is. So I did back of the napkin math.

You know, maybe someone will pipe up and be like, you're wrong. But let's say the average house, average American house, let's be generous. Let's say 2,000 square feet, 10 feet high. So we're at 20,000 cubic feet is kind of about a house. Basically, this aquarium is if you filled 86 houses with water, all of the volume of 86 houses in water. I mean, this aquarium is so big, they have whale sharks. Right, and they've got enough room to move around. Yeah, yeah.

Well, I hope so, yeah. Hopefully be happy. And I did not make this into a question, but I just want to share with you. This is one of the, the facts I found. The largest haggis. The largest, a Scottish delight, the haggis, a sheep's stomach filled with oats and organs and spices. The largest haggis weighed 1,000 kilograms. So it's like more than 2,000 pounds.

So I saw a picture of this and I just have to share. It looks like an abandoned bean bag that's been sitting on. the street corner, and it has been raining. That's what it looks like. I was, I'm imagining like a burrito the size of a car, basically, yeah. Well, all right, let's take a quick break, and we'll be right back. No frills, delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express.

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I had initially thought, oh, let me look at like, let me look into Guinness World Records, obviously. It's doing world's biggest, world's largest, world's greatest sort of stuff. I started looking up like Guinness World Record fails. Then I realized, like, I had already done that for a previous episode about biggest failures. Oh, they're fantastic. And but there was one, there was something that was on one of these lists. And I was like, did I talk about this? And I looked back and I didn't see it there.

and I was asking you guys, and I'm like, did I talk about the domino thing? And I hadn't. Let's talk about Domino Day. Now, Domino Day was an event that ran each fall in the Netherlands. It ran from 1998 to 2009. And each fall, a group of domino experts, you know, toppling, toppling dominoes, right? Like, not playing the game of dominoes, but making the dominoes ball over. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They would attempt to set a new world record for the big. biggest domino setup, right? So the most dominoes toppled. Every year they would try to do this. It was an annual event. It was televised. You could watch it kind of around the world, you know. And the specific Guinness record is the most dominoes toppled by a group.

So very much, Karen, like the ball of twine, you get your record for most dominoes by a person. One person. This is by a group. So Domino Day, they were successful nearly every year. In 1998, the first year they toppled, it was going to read it off, 1,605,757 dominoes, setting the world record. By 2009, the last year they did it, they toppled 4,491,000. Oh, wow.

So tantalizing the close to 5 million dominoes, they would have celebrities come in to push over the first domino. So like Shania Twain or Lionel Richie would like knock over the first domino. What an honor. As you do. I think so, yes. And so 2009 was the last day that they did this. And the 2009 record that they set, that still stands today.

That is still the record. Nobody is 4,491,863. It was set up by 89 builders. And generally, they would plan for this all year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It took the months to set it up. And they would have, it would be, it's all theme. The last one was like dominoes around the world.

And so it was like going around seven continents and stuff like that. Whoa. Yeah. Massive undertaking. So the one that I want to talk about is Domino Day 2005. So 14th of November, 2005 was four days before the big planned Domino Day topple. They were in the process of setting up 4,300,000 bricks about. and basically a little under 4 million of those needed to successfully topple in order to set the record.

So it's okay. They set it up so like, you know, if one domino doesn't fall over, it can keep going, you know? So they have some, like, there's some wiggle room there. But like, a little under 4 million needed to go to get the world record. Four days before the event, a sparrow gets into the X-Bull of all. Oh, no. So a little sparrow flies into the expo hall where all the dominoes are setting up and they're still setting up some stuff up. And it starts perching on dominoes.

Oh, no! And so this little sparrow caused 23,000 dominoes to fall over. Now, the reason why it's only 23,000 is because when they build these things, they actually leave gas. so that the last thing they do is they fill in those gaps with dominoes so that because when they're when they're building these things people will accidentally knock stuff over happens all the time they're like a firewall yeah yeah yeah so when somebody causes an accident they only knocked down like 23,000 instead of 4 million right so so the 23,000 dominoes fell over it sounds like a lot but it's not that it was a massive issue in and of itself the issue was that the bird still in there. And how do you get the bird out without knocking over all the rest of the dominoes

chasing the bird around with a stick? So they end up, they call in a, there's a private wildlife management company called Duke Wildlife Management. They call him in. And at first they try to humanely capture the sparrow. And they're, they're, like, having to carefully work their way around the dominoes and try to get it, like, in a net. And it doesn't work.

It, it does not work, like, at least, I mean, they could, I'm sure they could do it. They could knock over all the dominoes and then, you know, the whole point in the first place. So they shoot the sparrow. Oh, dear. They get out an air rifle and they, and they shoot it. And the sparrow dies. And the world record is saved. Happy ending?

I don't know. The issue is that public opinion comes down firmly on the side of Sparrow. Now, this is 2005. There's no social media yet. It would have been way worse, probably. Yeah, way, oh, man. But there was the internet, and, oh, gosh, I mean, somebody started an obituary page for the bird. Thousands of people signed the guests.

It made the international news, but then it was like, there was just like wall-to-wall coverage on the news in the Netherlands. And there was a radio DJ who offered a 3,000 euro prize to anyone who would break in and knock over all the dominoes. Because essentially it was like, how dare you take an innocent life, you know, for this. Your dumb record. Right, right, right. The headline in the British newspaper, The Guardian, was. was Sparrow executed for disturbing Domino's. New York Times ran a story.

Sparrow haunts domino event. Clap over Sparrow's death, Mars Domino record. That was NBC News. This was a, the sparrows, the name of the, of the species, which in Dutch is housemiss. And so they named this bird Domino-mas. And there was a quote, And, I mean, there was so, like, so much happened with, with this bird.

There was so much back and forth. And finally, the head of the Dutch Bird Conservation Association said to NBC News, I just wish we could channel all this energy that went into one dead sparrow into saving the species. Yeah, on the other 364 days of the year. So eventually, so the Dutch Society for the Preservation of Animals ends up suing. Um, the extermination company, the guy who fired the rifle ended up having to pay a 200 euro fine because the house sparrow in the Netherlands was endangered. It was in danger. Oh, my God. Apparently, the house, the house sparrow population, the sparrows used to be very common in Europe, but they're much less so now, especially in urban areas. And the population had declined like since like 1980. It had declined like 60%. It was a big drop.

In fact, coincidentally, it turns out, as I'm researching this, this year, 24, has been designated the year of the House Sparrow by the Dutch Bird Conservation Association to try to bring awareness to the plight and the disappearance of these ones. We should make buttons. Common birds. Yes. So Dominomis the Sparrow, his taxidermied body. currently resides in I checked it's still there the Natural History Museum

in Rotterdam If I want to go see literally this bird On display at the National History Museum In Rotterdam As part of a permanent exhibit That has been up for many years called The exhibit is called Dead Animals with a Story

And there's more than this one entry Yes Oh yes So you've got dominoes sitting very closely. By the way, again, another interesting coincidence, speaking of the world's biggest things and animals messing with them fatally, another one of the animals in the exhibit of dead animals with a story is a stone martin. This is like an animal very close to a ferret, you know.

This stone martin shut down the large Hadron Collider. That's the world's biggest particle accelerator. Yeah. Shut it down for a week because he jumped, jumped the fence and touched a transformer and electrocuted itself and shut down the large Hadron Collider for a long, very expensive death by this guy. The electrocuted Stone Martin is on display. On the extreme opposite end of the cool ways to go out meter, there is also in this exhibit a hedgehog that died. when it got its head stuck in a McFlurry

container? No! Oh, container. Oh, container. Not the machine. Just the container. He was trying to eat the McFlurri. And his head went into the plastic box.

Oh, but his quills. Get it out. And so he's, it's taxidermied with his head still in the McFurray container. Oh, my God. In this museum. And there's even worse stuff I'm not going to talk about.

One day. But, yes, exactly. This sounds like the ultimate conjubrient, field trip. Road trip, yes. Dead animals with a story at the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. You can pay your respects to animals that died in extremely cool or just very embarrassing ways. But as I said, the domino, there was only one year that the domino day, group did you know failed to set the record and it was not 2005 they set the record even after

all of the sparrow stuff it was the first time marking the very first time that any group anywhere had toppled million dominoes which clearly just required a blood sacrifice to get it done oh well if they didn't get it done then it's like the bird died in vain yeah right exactly Yeah, that's true. That would be even worse. You're right. If they went through all of that and they didn't set the record, you're right, Karen. Do you know if the taxidermy, is he perching it perching on a domino? Like a pile of dominoes. It is. They set him up, they set him up on a, on a little, a little box of dominoes. And now he gets to sit on dominoes forever. Yeah. Oh. It's very sad. I didn't put it in the Guinness record fails because, you know, they succeeded. It actually did set the record. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Oh, God, indeed. This is when my brain stops working. My hand stops working. The format of the game is I'm going to give you a prompt to list me as many blank. Usually we have a system where, you know, oh, list me all the countries that start with a B, right? And then you write your list, Chris, you write your list, Colin. And then you kind of cancel out.

The repeat answers, we don't count, right? You cancel each other out. We're going to do something a little bit different. You don't need to worry about that. You don't need to worry about the other person. Oh, I got to write more obscure things, like categories. You don't have to worry about that. But you do have to worry about giving me a wrong answer.

So you'll get points deducted if you get the wrong answer. So you can write a bunch of stuff. You know, that's kind of, you know, it used to be like, you know, I'm not going to get penalized for just to like, you know, writing much stuff. But this time you will. So watch out for wrong answers. All right. All right.

Get my timer. Now with punishment. Listeners, if you're listening at home or anywhere, feel free to jump in and play, get your paper and pad ready, maybe your notes app from your phone, and come and play with us and see how many you will get right or wrong. You're in the car, grab the steering wheel with your left foot. and pen in your teeth. Yeah.

All right. I will say ready set go. That's when you start writing. All right. So the 1988 classic film Big made Tom Hanks into a movie star. It was his big breakout role. In 30 seconds, please name me as many Tom Hanks movies. as you can.

Okay. Here we go. Five, four, three, two, one. Okay. Chris, why don't you do us the favor and read off your list. Read off what I have, okay. I put Joe versus the volcano,

which for some reason was the first thing that came to, I don't know why. Yeah, yeah. I put big, because you didn't say we couldn't put big. That's true. I put castaway. Then I put Toy Story.

Yes. And then I put Toy Story 2. Then I put Toy Story 3, and then, just to finish it off, I put Toy Story 4. Then I wrote Philadelphia and then I put Forest Gump. Wow, nine.

Nine. One, two, three. Wow, God, I'd even think that that's the Toy Story, the Colerian. Toy Story Gambit. All right. I put, also like Chris, I put big because you didn't say we couldn't. Splash. Nice.

I've got Apollo 13. I've got Forrest Gump. I too put Joe versus. is the volcano. I would have told him. Yeah. I've got the burbs. Again, I don't know why that one came to my mind.

I've got, you've got mail. And then I got sleepless in Seattle. Yeah, they're duos. Good job. We have Chris with nine, column with eight. Pretty honest system here. No wrong answer. So far.

Question number two. If you were an 80s, 90s kid, you might remember the big stuff Oreo with one F. Big Stuff Oreo with one. It was sold individually and was several times the size of a normal Oreo. They're discontinued in 1991. In 30 seconds, please name me as many varieties or flavors of retail Oreo cookies. Go.

Oh, my gosh. Flavors Special releases Seasonal edition Time's up Okay Woo! All right, Colin, why don't you go first this time?

And I have the list of Right here, and it's a very giant list. I've got Pumpton Spice. Correct. I've vanilla. Like the, they've got like the gold. I don't want to like the golden vanilla Oreos. They're called golden Oreos.

Oh, okay, golden. Okay, all right. Well, I got golden vanilla. Sorry. Okay. Okay. Okay. We'll let up to you.

Okay. Yeah. Mint. I mean, I just put mint. There's several mints. I think they had some rainbow ones for pride one year. Didn't they have rainbow Oreos, maybe? I don't know what the flavor would be.

Rainbow, there is Rainbow Oreo. It's just called Rainbow Oreo. Okay, all right. And then I got lemon. There is lemon. Yeah, that's what I got. So, one, two, three, four, five. Okay.

Regular Oreos. Okay, okay. Orioles. Okay. Double stuff Oreos. Thins. Yes. Yes.

Oh, okay. I was thinking of the varieties. Lemon, lemon Oreos. pumpkin spice, strawberry, chocolate, as in the filling is chocolate, and red velvet. Yes. Ooh, that sounds delicious. Just so, you know, Golden Oreo, they have all of Golden Oreo double stuff,

Golden Oreo Thin. So it could have said it. The Golden Mario could have had this tweet of it. I've talked about this on the show, which is the mystery, the mystery Pop-Tart. They also had a mystery Oreo. Oh. The mystery Pop-Tart flavor, turns out it was everything bagel, which is disgusting. Mystery Oreo was fruity pebbles.

Oh, okay. That was the flavor. It was like the cream with like fruity pebbles flavor. Please tell me that they called the Super Mario one, Super Morios. They did not call it Super Mario. Tuesdays with Morios. Not to stay with Morioles. That's the special limited edition.

Yeah. That's like a Bob's Berger's level joke. Uh, yeah. Two states and four you. Uh, all right. 30 seconds on the clock. Next question. Oz the Great and Powerful was a Disney prequel film to Wizard of Oz.

Based on the L. Frank Baum's Oz books, which there are 14. 14 Britain by him. In 30 seconds, please name me as many L. Frank Baum created Oz characters as you can. Here we go. This is why I was a little bit concerned with our pop quiz earlier in the show. Three, two, one. Times up. Chris, your turn.

Okay. Some Wizard of Oz characters. Here we go. Dorothy. Correct. Koto. Yeah. Correct.

The Wicked Witch of the West. The Wizard of Oz. Wicked Witch of the East Tick-Tock that cool robot The scarecrow The Tin Man The Cowardly Lion

And The Winged Monkeys Oh nice We all remember From earlier in the show One two Now I said They were at I said

Winged Monkeys And there were like ten of those You only get one That's not 10 You get one Okay so one two Two three four five six seven eight nine

That's a ten ten total Yeah, man, again, my brain just shutting down here. I got Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man, Tin Woodsman, the Dorothy, Toto, Tick-Tock, somehow I pulled out, Scarecrow, anti-M. Oh, good. And then I couldn't, I was not confident enough in her uncle's name, so I didn't write it down. I didn't want to risk the negative point. And then The Wicked Witch of the West. Our last big question, here we go.

the Big Mac, Whopper, Double Down, Baconator, Triente are all bigly named menu items at popular fast food restaurants. In 30 seconds, please name as many of the biggest 50 U.S. fast food chains by sales or by number of stores. Let that sink in. Okay. Fast food chains. by sales and or stores top 50 so just so you know it's not just hamburger places too like Starbucks counts as a fast food so hopefully that kind of opens up opens up some some realms for you so big 50 so if you get anything's wrong we're going to we're going to count it against you all right here we go go it's a great great list

Five, four, four, two, one. Man, stop. I just can't write that fast. Okay. Well, you really had us, like, thinking now because it's like, oh, but is it in the big 50 of Starbucks out? Anyway. It's funny.

So I QAed this test, you know, with the only other adult in this house. And he just listed blah, blah, blah, blah, blah for this question. Yet he could, like, he couldn't name like three Oz characters, right? Wow. You know, for me, like this was harder. This question I struggled with. But the Oz characters, I was like, yeah. All right.

All right. Well, I've got Starbucks. McDonald's. Got Jack in the Box. Chipotle. Yep. Burger King. Yep.

Wendy's. Subway. Domino's. Pizza Hut. Long John Silver. I don't know why that one came to mind here. Let me double check for that. Come on.

That's got a top 50. No. I think it's maybe. I don't know. I don't think so. Nope. Nope. Oh, negative one.

First penalty. That's too bad. Okay. Here's what I have. I had Subway. Actually, Subway, most stores. In the U.S. Ah, okay.

Starbucks, I'm going to take that one. McDonald's, Burger King. I put Taco Bell. Yes. And Tucky Fried Chicken. Yes. And then here's where I might lose a point, because I don't know why I wrote this down. Panda Express.

Yes. Is it on there? Yes. I can totally see that. Let's explore the categories. Okay. So we have. Yeah, I'm interested to hear this.

Yeah. So you have your burger restaurants, you know, your McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Sonic, What a Burger, Hardee's, Carl's Jr., five guys, in and out is on that list as well, White Castle, okay. Then you have the chicken category. Chick-fil-A on top, then KFC, Popeye's, Raising Cains on their boat. Yeah, wow. Bojangles, Wingstop. Okay, now I feel a lot better about, you. you know, saying Panda Express, because some of these are still just fundamentally, like, um, regional. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Raising can starting to make expansion, but like White Castle is not, you know. Churches is also, in and out is very reasonable. I'm surprised, I mean, even being a Californian, I'm surprised in and out is top 50. I mean, there's a brand, I don't know, Zaxby's. Okay, yeah. So then we have your coffee category, which is just dominated by Starbucks. Like Tim Horton makes a little sliver in there, but, uh, and then we have your, sandwich category, a good call on

Subway, Panera Bread, R.B's, Jimmy John's, Jersey mics. Yep, yep. And then pizza category, you guys nailed all of those. There is a donut category and it's pretty much Dunkin with a little bit of crispy cream.

Oh, okay, yeah. Did good in the Mexican category. And then there's desserts category. You both didn't name either of these. Can you name two in the dessert? Dirt's category. For fast food dairy queen?

Yes. Yeah, okay. And how about Baskin Robbins? And Baskin-Robbins the meeting. And there's only one bear standing in the Chinese category, and that is Panda Express. Oh, wow, wow, wow. Last bear standing. People love orange chicken.

Yeah, they do. It's hard. It's hard being put on the spot. And knowing that the Times Times. ticking down, but you guys did pretty good. And they can get penalized for incorrect answers. Yes, right? Before I used to just be like,

I'm just, I'm just going to write a bunch of stuff that I don't know if it's all guess, you know, like, I remember I think an old episode, Colin, you had like, oh, name as many Pokemon's and we're just making up names. It's going to stick. You don't want to pull a long John Silver, you know. Yeah, no, you don't want to pull a long John Silver. That's very like, yeah, there's long John Silver's everywhere. Yes, there are Colin.

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