Good Job, Brain! - 275: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #55

Episode Date: May 23, 2024

Come join our table for some weird trivia games in our Spring 2024 season finale! Karen's got an experimental "reverse" music round to test your gauge on the success of famous songs. Inspired by an impressively squished NBA jersey, Colin's got a quiz about various records for the longest names and titles. And row aside, Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch, we have a bunch of familiar friends with not-so-familiar formal names in Chris' fictional character challenge. And give your brain a workout with Six Degrees of Separation Anxiety. See you next fall in the ton, gentle listeners! 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. Aloha, alliterative, alkaline, allies, alphabetizing, alternative alcohols. This is Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and Offbeat Trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 275. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your trickster trivia triplets trying to triumph without tripping. I'm Colin. And I'm Chris. It is our season finale, everybody.

This is our last episode of our spring season. And thank heavens, it is an all-quiz bonanza. Yay! We're going to start the show with our usual corrections segment. favorite um actually so we have a very good um actually and a very good backstory the last episode 274 about siblings i had a segment about sister cities and i shared one i did not check the source but turns out it is wrong i noted how um paris france is sister cities with paolo alto california tech capital of the United States somewhat, you know, spiritually.

They are not sister cities. The sister city of Palo Alto that's in France is Albi, Albi France. And this listener, Yves, he wrote in, he goes, I know this because my dad made it happen. Oh, okay, all right. And I like pressed on and I was like, oh, my God, can you tell us more? Like, you know, what did your dad do? Like, why Albi? and you know, please tell us more.

And you said it's basically my parents moved from Albi to Palo Alto and that wanted a connection. Wouldn't that be neat? So you know what, Tara, that's so funny that this came up because literally just last week, a week ago today, I was in Palo Alto, California. I was there for several days for a work thing. And on the last day, I was out to get some breakfast. with some my coworkers, went to go get some coffee and breakfast. And we walked past Palo Alto City Hall. And out in front of Palo Alto City Hall is a post.

And it says Palo Alto sister cities. And it's got all of the little arrows pointed to each little sister cities. And like internally, I'm like, all right, keep a cool calling. Like, you know, people are going to think you like, you know, like, it's like, I like, don't like freak out and be like, hey, guys, check it out. Do you guys want to go look at the post that shows the sister? city's to Palo Alto, California. And, like, my coworkers are, like, mostly from Berlin, and they're like, no, it's not,

we don't need to go see that. That's okay. Keep it cool, man. Yeah. I don't know when it happened, but when you start reading plaques on buildings. You know you're far gone. You're gone. You're out.

You're like, hmm, how interesting. As the great Roman Mars says, right, always read the plaque. Yeah, always read the plaque And I have another follow up to last episode. It is not an actually, but to addendum. This is from

listener Chris, from our Loeb-Trotters fan group. Colin, in the last episode, you had a quiz about Parker Brothers and Parker Brothers games, and you notably talked about how Parker Brothers owned Nerf for a while. Yes, yes. And the person who

invented Nerf also in vended Twister, Ren Geyer. Yes. Well, Chris is related to Ren Geyer. Yes. Yeah, my maternal aunt married the son of Ren Geyer. So he has a direct, less than six degree connection to officially to Nerf and Twister. I mean, game royalty.

He shared a fun fact. After being an inventor, Rent also founded a company called Windsor Learning, focused mostly on reading systems to help students. with dyslexia. That's fantastic. Is that cool? That is really cool. People are related to the trivia.

That's wild. Well, all right. Without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment. Pop quiz, hot shot. All right. Here I have two normal standard trivial pursuit classic edition of 2016. You guys have your barnyard buzzers. Here we go.

Let's answer some questions. Blue Edge. What bird features on the flag of Dominica? Dominica. That's how you're supposed to pronounce it. Third syllable has the stress. Can I phone a friend? What bird is on the flag of Oh, yes. Oh, Chris is phoning a friend and by friend, his son. His son. Who's in first grade. Let me check. He says he thinks it's a parrot. He is correct. Fantastic. You got it. Wow! You can be on our trivia team now. Spanning generations.

That is amazing. He knows every flag. That's where my daughter is heading. Oh, she is. She's four years old. She quizzes us. She's like, what flag is green on the left, white in the middle, green on the right? And we have to answer correctly.

I don't know. Is that Nigeria? It is Nigeria, yeah. Oh, wow. All right. Okay. Okay, well, Uncle Kyle. can play guess the flags with the kids and we all get together oh hey kids go to uncle Colin

uncle Colin's here all right uh pink wedge which star of a magical movie series developed a rash from his first pair of wizard glasses oh gosh oh like Chris uh how about Daniel Radcliffe correct Daniel Radcliffe how do you develop rash from glasses I don't know No, you know what? Maybe they, to make them, like, look really good or shiny, they like lacquered them or something like that. Okay, right. He's allergic to nickel. Oh.

Oh. And a lot of people are. A lot of the earrings, they say, like, nickel-free because a lot of people are allergic to nickel. Well, there we go. All right, Yellow Edge. Which company was founded after the merger of Thomas Edison's company with two other companies? Chris. AT&T.

Incorrect. Dang it. Oh, I see, because Alexander Graham Bell, that's a... Right, right, right, yeah, yeah. Is it, is it RCA? No, Chris? All right, second bite at the apple. General Electric.

Correct. It makes a lot more sense. Of course, of course. What do we call this company? Ah, something electric generally, generally electrician. Purple Wedge, which personality test would you decide whether, whether you're an ISTJ or a E-N-T-J. Chris.

It's the Myers-Briggs personality test. Ooh, what is the official formal name of the test? Oh. Oh, does it have assessment in there? Or is that what you mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got the name right. The LSATs?

I don't know. What? The Myers-Briggs type indicator. Okay. Oh, okay. I'm going to give it to myself. Okay. Green Wedge, what is the name of the first privately owned spacecraft to return from orbit?

Oh. Oh, that's a good one. Turned from orbit. What was the Virgin spaceship, right? I was thinking like Virgin Galactic. Yeah, or... Does it have to be manned also? Like, I don't know.

It is called the dragon. Nice. And then there's an extra text here says, it landed safely in the Pacific after delivering cargo to the International Space Station. All right. Orange Wedge. Which toy line includes the character's rainbow dash, flutter shy, and twilight sparkle. Oh, too. Everybody.

My little pony. Now, here's the thing. Is this prior to the reboot? Like, what was this card from? 2016. This is after the reboot. Oh, so that's after the reboot. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The Neo Pony Revival. Ah, yes, the pony, the Pony Regency era. Last card here. Six questions. Blue Edge for Geography. Which nation often called the Switzerland of Central America has no standing army and an ex-president who won the Nobel Peace Prize? Huh. Chris.

I'm going to say Bolivia. Collie, do you have a guess? It's funny. I was going to say Bolivia, too, first thing that came to my mind. Costa Rica. Costa Rica. Olivia also wrong for not being in Central America. Yeah.

It's okay. It's not in Central America. All right, Pink Wedge. What is the appropriate title of the 2014 sequel to Dumb and Dumber, which was made a mere 20 years after the first film? Chris. Dumb and Dumberer. Dumberer. Uh, not according to this card.

Oh, really? Let me say it again. What is the appropriate title of the 2014 sequel to Dumb and Dumber? Oh, oh, oh. Which was made a mere 20 years after the first film. There was a dumb. I feel like there was one, but I know what it's asking now. It's dumb and dumber two, spelled T-O.

Yes. Yes. Wait, so who's in that movie? Was that the one that was like the prequel? It was them as young, right? It was before they came back for the... Dumb and Dumberer came out in 2003. And then Dumb and Dumber 2, T.O. was 2014.

Ah. Yellow Wedge. A millennial is a member of the generation that reached adulthood around the turn of which century? Chris. The 21st century. Correct. Yes. Great.

Purple Wedge, Richard Preston's 1994 book, The Hot Zone, is about which modern-day pandemic? Oh, the hot zone. Sure. What year? 1994, Chris. Ebola.

Yes! Yeah. Yeah. Does it make you hot? No. The hot zone is like the area in which... Oh, that's infected. You know, it's gone around.

Yeah. Like, your body is a hot zone. Parts of your body is in the hot zone. Hey girl, you have Ebola. Parts of your body are a hot zone. Parts. This reminds me of the old line that you came up with. It's so good.

The hot dog one? No, the hot dog one. The hot dog, but yeah, yeah. No, no, no, you're talking about the... International date line. Oh, yeah. Well, because it's pronounced wrong, right? Yeah.

A girl, is it tomorrow? Because you've got to cure a body. But unfortunately, it's not pronounced Kiribati the way that it's spelled. No, it's not. Yeah, so. Oh, okay. Oh, I'm crying.

Just another reason why it should never be said. Add it to the list. That's my best pickup line. For those listeners that don't know because I made a reference to it. Hey, girl, you must be a convenience store hot dog because you've been rolling back and forth in my mind all day. That's generous.

Oh, yeah, just one day. That's funny. For all last week, yeah. Greenwich, Forest Science and Nature, in surface area, the country of Russia is larger than the dwarf planet of Pluto, true or false. Wow. In surface area Chris again

Oh, I gotta go with false Colin? I feel like even Even a dwarf planet The only reason I would say true Is because otherwise it's a who cares question That's the only reason I'm gonna say true I don't know

The aughts in the 2010s had a lot of Pluto drama So it's like True, true Topical It is true So that's here, Pluto's surface area is 6.4 million square miles and Russia is 6.6. That is a good trivia nugget. That is a good one. That is. That's good. It really is a small planet.

How do they know? How do they know what? How big Russia is? Pluto. I think Pluto is like water displacement, right? They float it in a giant bathtub. Right. They told us this in high school, Karen. I mean, yeah, Eureka, yeah, you know, right, yeah. Orange Wedge, which physicists loved sailing and did it for 50 years, but ran a ground, lost direction, and had many near-Miss collisions. Huh.

Wow. Colin. I'll say Richard Feynman? Incorrect. I don't know. Chris. Do I know a physicist? Neil's born.

Albert Einstein All right Good job brains All right this week It is our all-quiz Bonanza episode Every fifth episode We don't have a theme or a topic We all brought our own random quizzes

And games to stump each other And stuff you guys listeners So get ready this week It's All Quiz Bonanza Number 55 I will go first. So this is like well-trodden ground for good job brain. I think some of these have come up before,

but I don't know if we've ever done a quiz in this format before. So what I have for you guys is a quiz about fictional characters that are generally only known by their nickname, but who in fact have like real names like actual names that generally they're not addressed by these names but canonically

these are their names sometimes they are addressed by these names but we would know them as really the nickname so the way that we're going to do this is we're doing this the hard way maybe I'm giving you I'm scared I'm giving you the real name

the not often used real name of this person and you have to identify who the character is, you know, by their common nickname. Okay. So without having any context, it may perhaps be a little more difficult to place it. Okay. So we'll see how you guys do. Maybe you'll kill this. Do we know what realm? These are characters from cartoons, movies, comics, books, boards.

games, mascots, it could be anything. Oh, okay. All right. All right. Okay.

For example, in the board game realm, one that I did not put in here, because it's a little bit too obvious, is Milburn Pennybags. Oh. Monopoly man. Rich,

Rich, Rich Runggle penny bags, what have you. Technically, his real name, canonically is Milburn Pennybags. So I'm going to give you the real name. the real name of the fake person

and then you tell me the nickname that they go by okay sounds good let's write this down let's put Karen against Colin and see who knows their fictional character real names and all I'm giving you is the real name you got to write down something okay I'm not giving you that much time either

okay here we go Norville Rogers Norville Rogers Karen has written Shaggy, whereas Colin has written Buck Rogers, has a Norville Buck Rogers. No, Norville Rogers is the real name of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. Good job to Karen. Good job to the Loeb-Trotters group. Someone just shared that fact very recently. Oh, for real? Oh, that's funny. Nice. Nice. That does ring a bell now. Yeah, you're right. Devoid of context. It's, yeah. It's tougher. It's tougher, right? Yeah. Here we go. Gordon Shumway. Oh. Gordon Shumway. All right.

Karen has written Alth. Colin has written Alf. You are both correct. It is Alf. The alien life form. The alien life form. 80s sitcom, real name, Gordon Shumway. That was a wild time for TV.

You know, they greenlit everything. Yeah. Yeah. Beatrix Kiddo. Beatrix, kiddo. Oh, man. Why do I know that? Why do you know that? Beatrix, kiddo. Ooh, can we get a category clue, hint?

Do you both agree that you want that? Oh, Colin? Sure, sure. Okay. Film. It's in the punchbowl somewhere. It's stuck at the bottom. Yep, yep, yep.

Why is that in there? Oh, I know, I know. I forgot what their, their nickname. name is. I know. Oh, man. Can't leave a blank. Can't leave a blank. Can't leave a blank. Can't leave a blank. Callan puts a Cruella DeVille. Yeah. That's right. Karen puts the bride. That's right. From Thomas Thurman's character in Kill Bill. That's right. Moving right along. Patricia Reichart. Patricia Reichart. Can you, can I get the spelling of Reichert?

Reichart? is spelled R-E-I C-H-A-R-D-T That's not what I was. Patricia Reichart. Oh, those lot of letters.

Answers up. Everyone has said Peppermint Patty, everyone is correct. Next character, their real name is Forsythe P. Jones. Whoa.

Forsyth. F-S-E-S-E-S-Y-S-E-S-Y-E-S-Y-E, that's F-O-R-S-Y-S-E. I-T-H-E-P-Jones. P. Jones. This is the one that I actually started off the quiz with because I recalled this piece of information. And I was like, that's funny. This could be a quiz. Do we want a category hint?

Yeah. Okay. It is the world of comics. Oh, okay. That's not, you know, I initially had put Pillsbury Do-Boy. No, that's poppin fresh. Yes, that's right. Yes, that's the real name.

That's the real name. That's the real name. Poppin fresh. Forcite, Popin. Colin says, Mr. Freeze, Karen is a big old question mark. It is Jughead. It's Jughead Joan. Oh, yes, I've heard that.

Jughead Jones. from Archie. Junkhead Jones. Foreside. Buckle up. How about Jonas Grumby? How about Jonas Grumby? This is definitely one I've heard before. It's definitely come up on quizzes before. Yes.

You don't have to write down the correct answer, but you do have to write down something in five, four, three, two, one. Karen says the green giant, Colin says, The Skipper. Colin is correct. Jonas Grumby is the name of The Skipper from Gilligan's Island. Oh. Jonas Grumby, played by Alan Hale Jr. All right. Kenneth Sean Carson, Jr. Kenneth Sean Carson, Jr. Oh.

All right. Five, four, three, two, one. put up something. Colin says J.G. Or something like that. Karen says Ken Dahl. Karen is correct. That is the full name of Barbus. Ken, just Ken.

He's just Ken. Kenneth Sean Carson Jr., the full name of Barbie's first while on again, off again, boyfriend. Ken. All right, let's move on. Salvatore Bumpencerro.

Salvatore bump and Sarah. What's funny about that, Karen? It is B-O-N-P-E-N-S-I-E-R-O. Salvatore Bumpen-Sero. I believe it's like good thinking, you know, answers up. Karen says, Tony, Colin says, Big Pussy.

It is indeed Salvatore Big Pussy Bumpin-Caro from the Sopranos. So named because he is. a cat burglar, the step one. Colin has tied it up. It is four to four as we move into this fictional character whose name is Miles Prower. Why do I know that? Oh man, I know this from Chris. You should know this from me asking this in a different form, I think, on a previous episode.

Well, I remember we got it wrong. We thought it was the other one, and it's the other one. interesting. This character has like, yeah, this character has definitely moved into more of a position of pop culture prominence in recent years. Okay. Colin says

Knuckles. Karen says Tails. Karen is correct. It is Sonic the Hedgehogs, little buddy Tails, the two-tailed Fox. Real name, Miles Prower. Very nice. Miles Prower. Yep, it's a good one. Miles per hour.

Oh, my God. I'm going to flip this table. I just got it. I get it. Oh, my God. Karen is pacing, throwing her headphones across the room.

I can't believe this. Oh, God. Yeah, Miles Prower. Yep, phenomenal. All right. Oscar Diggs. Oh. Oscar Diggs.

I mean. Oscar Diggs. Okay, I don't know, I don't know. Oscar Diggs, just a farm boy from Middle America who grew up to be, Karen says, Oscar the Grouch. Farm boy. Colin says, Colin says, Oscar the Grouch. No, go, no, I'm sending you back in. I'm going to tell you this.

Okay. Okay, maybe it would help you if I told you that his middle name, his name with his middle name is Oscar Zoroaster Diggs. Why is that clue? Farm boy from, farm boy from. Farm Boy from Middle America went on to bigger and better things. Fictional. Far boy from middle of America.

Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh. Oh, oh. Oh, oh. James Franco, Colin. Second bite of the apple. It's, but, oh, no, what is it? Karen says, the Wizard of Oz.

Correct. Very good. Oscar Diggs. OZ. OZ. How about, I'm going to give you guys two more. Okay. Officer Edgar Mallory.

Oh, oh, uh, oh, oh, oh. Edgar Mallory. If you think you can identify who Officer Edgar Mallory is, just write down something that I know that you know. Oh. Karen says, Ponch? I was thinking of Eric Estrada. Oh, it was Poncherello, right? Oh, I see.

And Colin says, Robocop, Officer Edgar Mallory is the real name. If you think back to the beginning of this quiz, when I used to talk about some of the categories. Board games? It is from the road of board games. Monopoly policeman. Yep. Officer Edgar Mallory is the name of the cop that sends you to jail in Monopoly. Yep, yep, yep.

So I have just one more for you. This is the expert level. This, this, this, this character's real name is Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald Smyth. And Fitzgerald Smyth is a hyphenate also, just, just to, just to let you know. Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald Smyth. It's this character's real name. So don't go, yeah, don't go looking at the, um, the, uh, the, the acronym. That's, that's not going to help you.

I think you just need to know that this character, it's this, what is his name suggest to you. I have a guess. Rich. I have a guess. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. A member of high society. He certainly, he is an aristocrat. He is a member of high society. You've both put Richie Rich. I think that's, that's actually a very, very good guess. It's wrong, but it's a very, very good guess. You have a Richard kind of thing. That's a real name. I believe that his actual name is like Richard Rich. Yes.

You want another crack at the, uh, another. crack at the apple, as it were. I'll take another. I'll take another. Another bite at the hat. He's an aristocrat. He is a mascot who appears on food products. Oh.

There's only one distinguished enough. An elegant, distinguished gentleman. Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald. I love that. I can't believe he has a name. That's great. And a wonderful name at that. is the proper, is the proper name of the true gentleman, Mr. Peanut.

I mean, the monocle, the cane, the top hat, spats, I mean, is there anything, you know. This peanut can't, this leg can't do. It's really laying it on thick, like the delicious taste of Mr. Peanut brand butter. And I forgot to keep score after about the halfway point, so I really don't know who won and Quite frankly, couldn't care less. With Miles Prower, we all won. We all won in the end. All right, I have a game here.

So this game is the brainchild of a friend of the show, Jonathan. Oh, hey, Jonathan. Who was a TV exec and a long time ago tried to make Good Job Brain. The TV show happened. Not really happened. We just talked about it. You know, it was the closest we ever got. Handilizing brush with, like, we had a meeting.

So Jonathan had an idea, and this is from his words. He says, the game is called six degrees of separation anxiety. Love it. I'm going to give you an actor, a movie, and another actor in that order. It's kind of like a crazy before and after sandwich situation. So you're creating a chain of three movies. That is the goal of before and after of three things. So a chain of three movies, you're going to get the middle movie.

The first movie is going to be clued in by the actor, the last movie, and that chain is the second actor. So for example, if I said, Michael Sarah, Bad Boys for Life, John Cleese, which means Michael Sarah is in a movie where the last word is bad. And then John Cleese stars in a movie where the first word is life. So it would be Chris. Super bad, super bad voice for life with Brian. Oh, Brian. Yes, got it.

Okay. All right. So the answer is a three movie connection. Okay. So again, the example was Michael Sarah, bad boys for life, John Cleese. So Michael Sarah was in Super Bad Boys for Life of Brian. All right. And here we go.

Most of these are Jonathan's. I came up with some unhinged ones. So good luck. Thank you, Jonathan. What a great, like, what a great idea. Here we go. We're going to buzz in. Let's start with Jennifer Garner, 30 days of night, Ben Stiller.

Chris. 13 going on 30 days of night at the music. Yes. Oh, okay. I was stuck on the Ben Stiller one. Good, night at the museum. Good job, good job. All right. Nice. Second one. Robert De Niro, that thing you do, Spike Lee. Whoa. Colin. Analyze that thing you do the right thing. Yes. Two things in there. The fun part is saying,

all of it together. It's very satisfying. Absolutely, yeah. Yeah. It's like a speed bump for your brain. You can't go too fast through it, right. Okay, next one. Matt Damon, Wall Street, Raoul Julia. I know that, I know that

the second one, obviously. Rest in peace. But I don't know that, yeah. I do not know the first. Okay, this Matt Damon movie was. Oh, oh. Oh. It was, it was the, it was the, it was the, I don't know the second half, though, so maybe we can tag him here. You start it. You start it. I'll finish.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. I think this was the China historic epic one, right? Like the Great Wall or the Great Wall Street Fighter. Oh, Street Fighter. He was a bison. Of course. I think maybe that was his last rule.

Yes, it was. The Great Wall. Street Fighter. Here we go. Next one. Kevin Spacey, Beauty and the Beast, Covenzine Wallace.

Oh, no, what was the name of the movie? It was Beast of the... It's actually plural. Beasts of the Southern... Wild. See, it's the Southern Wild.

All right. So Beauty and the... American Beauty and the Beast of the Southern Wild. Correct, correct, correct. And also, last episode of, I mentioned that Billy Elish was the first person born after 2000 to win an Oscar. Covenjeunet Wallace was the first to get nomination. First person born after 2000 to get a nomination.

All right, here you go. This is a deep cut. This is my unhinged one. Moira Kelly. Edge of Tomorrow, Michelle Yo. Okay. This is a deep cut. Yeah.

Was in... Wara Kelly. Was she in Rivers Edge? I'll tell you, it's about an ice skate. It's about ice skating this... So is it, is it Razor's Edge of Tomorrow never dies? You're close. It is.

Also starring a D.B. Sweeney, if we remember. for him, where he's a hockey player and he gets recruited to be the Ice Queen's ice skating partner. I don't know what is this. The cutting edge of tomorrow never died. Yeah. All right. Next one.

Vigo Mordinson, Fantastic for Hugh Grant. Colin. Captain Fantastic for Wedding Santa Funeral. Yes. All right. Next one. Woody Harrelson, killers of the flower moon, Mahershal Ali. Colin?

Natural born killers of the flower moonlight. Yes. Yes. Okay. Two more, two more, two more. They're both mine. Billy Bob Thornton, Blade Runner 2049, Dolly Parton. Oh, oh, oh, okay, all right, yeah, sure.

Oh, for it, call it. Sling Blade Runner 2049-25. Yes, yeah. Bending the rules a little bit, but. Wait, why? Well, 2049 is... The whole word? Yeah.

Oh, is that how it works? You got the makers of a good pub quiz fight. No, you know what? No, no, this is good. Oh, because when you say 2049, it's not technically 20, right? It's 2049. We say 2049. I think that's the decider.

You go by how do you say it? That's kind of the way you have some wiggle room in my mind. All right. Last one. This is hard. Probably this one has the most recent film in this game. All right, here we go. Last one.

Edward Norton, X-Men Days of the Future Past, Greta Lee. Edward Norton. I can get to the first part. Yeah. Ex-Men Days of the Future Past. Uh-huh. Greta Lee. She was nominated for,

Best Actress this year. The film also. Oh, okay. All right. Colin. American History X-Men Days of Future Past Lives. Yes. Oh, okay.

Good job. All right. That one chain span a lot of genres. Man, you're not kidding. That's a whiplash there, yeah. That's a good mental workout. All right, let's take a quick break, and we'll be right back. Get to Toronto's main venues like Budweiser Stage and the new Roger Stadium with Go Transit.

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Bye. Hey, we're back. And it's our all-quiz. Colin, you're next. Last episode of the season and an all-quiz bonanza. You know what that means. It is time to collect all the little odds and ends of quizzes that didn't quite come together during the season, like liftovers in the fridge and mash them together.

Sweep it up. That's right. And China, it's like kind of just make a vaguely quiz-shaped thing out of what we go. Yeah. A little bit of fried rice, like half a taco. You know, you can get some dinner out of that. Yeah, it's fusion. I've got a fusion quiz for you all. The one dumpling you brought back because it's like, I don't want to waste it. Yeah, yeah. You open up the burrito because the tortilla. is dry, but there's some good chicken in there, right?

You know, like, there's still a meal in there, yeah. No, we're on this topic. I have a personal question to ask you guys. So, let's say you get a burrito or a sandwich, and it's like, you put in the fridge and you want to eat again, you want to reheat it. What do you do with the cold vegetable, the lettucey salad part? I take it out. I take it out.

And then put it back in. If I have, like, half a cheeseburger or something like that, you know, take all the cold parts out. Heat it up the burger and then put it up. all back. Reassemble. Yeah. Ideally, you have the foresight to take it out when you're stashed on it away for later, right?

Yeah. Oh. And it kind of depends on what you're going to do with it. I'm not crazy to deconstruct. No. Yeah. No, I think that's probably the same thing. I don't want to eat microwaved wilted lettuce.

It's disgusting. Anyway, so I'm very happy that we had this moment. Yeah. I mean, this is good ammo. That lettuce on day two is already on borrowed time. It knows. Sorry, no, no, no, no, that's fair, yeah. Yeah.

I did, however, try hard to find a hook to tie us in here. We are in the thick of the NBA playoffs right now, the National Basketball Association playoffs, among the many standout players in the league this season, who received MVP votes, in fact. was none other than a guard for the Oklahoma City Thunder named Shea Gilgis Alexander. Shea Gilgis Alexander. That's a hyphenated last name. He goes by SGA, sort of in the NBA blogosphere and news press, because it's a good little short name.

Because his name is a little long. In fact, in fact, you guys, Shea Gilgis Alexander has the record for longest name ever in the NBA, by which I mean longest last name on the jersey. Oh! 18 characters. And, you know, like, you say, okay, Gilgis Alexander, but then, like, you really think about it.

Alexander's long. Yeah, you got Alexander as long. And then you've got a hyphen, which counts as a character, by the way. And then you've got Gilgis on the front there. Yeah. So when he was drafted by the Clippers, actually, you know, a few seasons ago, there was a photo that made me chuckle. So, like, he came into the league and there was a little odd news, NBA factoid.

Hey, longest name ever in the NBA jersey. And there was a picture of him from the back with his name sort of starting way over on the left, you know, horizontal, making a real precarious. you turn above the top of the letters, and then coming back down again on the right side, just a challenge to the jersey maker to get all of those letters on there, right? I mean, you look at like LeBron James, right? I mean, that's five letters, right? I mean, you could get three plus James, James, James, and still have room to spare for the

price of one Gilchus Alexander lettering. They've gotten a little bit better with fitting his name on the jersey. But so then that got me got me thinking, what are the longest, names in the major professional U.S. sports, the big three, at least. You know, these are not necessarily anything I expect you to remember, but, you know, maybe you file it away. It sits in the back of your head there for a little while until you pull it out at the right moment.

The longest name of any player in Major League Baseball history, we're setting records here recently. This is just as of 2023 when this player hit the majors. Christian Encarnacion Strand So we got another hyphenate

here Also 18 characters And then to round it out for the NFL The record for longest NFL player name on a jersey

was Michael Hoamanawanui with 15 characters Yes, yes with the Hawaiian influence on his last name there

that made me remember that I had a whole bunch of abandoned quiz notes for long things You may remember we had a long episode at one point.

So I used that as the base for my stew through in a little few other nuggets that I collected along the course of the season. So I've got a quiz for you here generally around long names, long titles, long words, etc. So we're going to do this as a buzzer. Get your buzzers ready to jump on in. We'll start off with a warm up here. We covered this actually just a season or two ago. Do you recall what is the nation with the longest official title as recognized by the United Nations? Longest name.

Now, Chris. Is it the Democratic Republic of the Congo? You're on the right track in that it's a full official name. It is not that country. It is, in fact, the United Kingdom of the United Kingdom of the country. Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Oh. Longest official, full, complete name of a nation.

So, here we go. In 2021, this comedy, a sequel, earned the Guinness World Record for longest title for a film nominated for an Oscar. The full official title of this movie was 100.000. and 10 characters long. Most people, including the movie press, used a three-word shortened version. Oh, okay. I was...

What movie was this? 2021, the movie came out in 2020. It was a sequel with a well-known fictional character, an intentionally offensive fictional character, you might say. sequel that one that got nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture? It was nominated for two Oscars, Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Best Writing. Is this Borat 2? Yes, I'm going to give it to you.

I will give it to you. Sorry, how did they... The common name was Borat Subsequent Movie Film. Oh, okay. The full official name of the title. The record-winning name is Borat Subsequent. subsequent movie film, colon, delivery of prodigious bribe to American regime for make benefit once glorious nation of Kazakhstan.

All right. We'll shift gears here a little bit prestige-wise, perhaps. What is the longest play by William Shakespeare? Oh. Oh, oh, oh, not the title. Not the title. You can go by most words, most lines. It'll win on either count. Henry the 8th No Karen what do you got Richard third

No it is Hamlet Hamlet by a good margin Yes the longest The only of his plays To even top 30,000 words Over 4,000 lines Yeah

It's a long one It's a long one indeed In the world of horse racing As I think we've talked about On the show Horse names follow a very very interesting number of rules, all set down by the Jockey Club, the official arbiter of all things related to registering and naming horses in the horse racing world. How long is the longest

allowable horse name? Oh, the character? In lengths or in characters? Cannot go over this many characters for a horse name. Characters for a horse name. 100. 200. No, that's, yeah. This too many? 1,000 characters.

Well, if we're going to go closest to, I think Chris takes it. It is actually 18 characters. Your official horse name has, yes. Which is one reason why you see people getting kind of cheeky, like taking spaces out, running words together. Yeah, portmanteau words, right. Yeah. Among many, many, many other words.

You cannot have a name that ends in Philly or Colt or stallion or any kind of horse-related term. Okay. You can't use the name of a living person unless that person has not only given their permission, but delivered their permission to the Jockey Club. Yeah. On and on and on another. They have reserved names for very famous horses. Like you can't name your horse Man O' War and register that horse anymore.

Yeah. And it also cannot be more than 18-carriage. characters. Speaking of animal registry, I learned that in France, if you're registering a dog, and this is for, you know, purebred dogs, not like your shelter dogs that you adopt, but like if you're going to register your dog, every dog from that year has to have a name that starts with the same letter. Really? Yes. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, let's say one year is S, the next year is T. There's some letters, obviously, they don't use like X, you know, because there's not a lot of X names. That's interesting.

So if you know the scene, you can tell how old a dog is by their name. That's pretty much exactly why. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, buzzer's ready. Lightning Round. Can't think too fast here. What U.S. state capital has the longest name? There's actually a tie.

You got two bites at this one. Karen, what do you got? Tallahassee. That is incorrect. Tallahassee, 11 letters. We're going longer than 11. Remember, just throw out here that city counts for four letters there. Oh, well, not Carson City.

Better than Louisiana. I was trying to rush you guys because I figured Karen would just throw this one down right away. I would figure this out. Oh, Washington, D.C.? Oh, Washington, D.C.? No, not a state capital. Oh, okay. Salt Lake City and Jefferson City.

How was Salt Lake, sorry. You have to count the spaces. What? Yeah. Oh. You have to count the spaces? Of course. I guess.

I said characters. Space is a character. They're like, what are you talking about? Okay. All right. And before I get any um-actualies from the fine, fine people of the fine, fine city of Santa Santa Fe, New Mexico, let me just address the hanging asterisk here, which is the fact that the historical full official, depending on how you.

want to look at it, name of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is La Via Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco De Assis, which if anybody actually used that name in any sort of common situation might qualify for longest state capital, but no, that is not in common usage. But I don't want your emails in your own actuallys. So consider yourself asterisk, asterisk, asterisk, right, there we go. All right. All right. there have been two U.S. presidents with 10 letter last names. That's a record.

Name either or both. 10 letter. Karen. Roosevelt. And Chris, why don't you just give me one? Karen gave me Roosevelt. Incorrect. Eisenhower is one.

Ding, ding, ding. Little fella by the name of George Washington. Oh, really? Oh. Yes. Joe Biden. This is interesting to me.

He has both the longest full official name of any U.S. President. Okay. So again, counting spaces and characters, everything. And now he's a junior, remember. So his full name, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., coming in at 26 characters. And that's with me abbreviating the J.R. he also has the shortest common name at Joe Biden with just being nine characters. So I thought that was kind of neat, kind of bookending it there.

George Herbert Walker Bush coming in number two there. Salt Lake City is not. You're like, wait a minute. That's only 12. That's what I was like. But I'm right. I'm not counting spaces. It's still longer than Tallahassee at 11.

I'm counting on you guys to not leave me hanging on this one. All right. Okay, okay. Oh, gosh. Oh, geez. Okay, all right. Last one, here we go. This one caught me by surprise.

I'll just say it that way. All right. This British band with anarchist punk roots and a nonsensical name holds the Guinness World Record for longest album title.

at a whopping 156 words. All I need is the name of the band. I am not looking for the name of the album. Nonsensical. Describe the band name again? Yeah. British band, anarchist, punk roots, nonsensical name. Oh, I mean, nonsensical as in like they're not real words.

Yeah, silly. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I was going to say sex pistols, but no. I don't think that's nonsense. Some won't consider them a fairly consider them a one-hit wonder. Oh. I am looking for Chumba Wamba. Oh, gosh.

With their 2008 release, colloquially known as the boy bands have won, which that is just the start of a 156 word title certified. Guinness World Records. I get knocked down. You got it. Now it's going to be in your head all night. 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 nofrills.ca. All right, folks, I got one last quiz. It's a bit of an experiment. We're going to do some things live. I see some excitement and I see some nervousness. All right. Here we go. Well, you know how we love a good music round. You know how we love a good music round with a secret theme. You know, we kind of play named that tune. And the songs are all connected in a certain way. And you have to figure out what that theme is. So this trivia game we're about to play is not a music round. It's definitely inspired by the process of making a music round. Hmm.

Yeah, this is what we're going to do. It's a write-down quiz. Each round, I'm going to give us a prompt. It's your job to write down what you think is the most successful best-selling song that fits that prompt. Okay. We'll reveal our answers. We'll look it up. Whoever wrote down the most successful song wins the round.

I like it. So, for example, my prompt is, give me a song that has a person's name in the title. Oh, okay. Okay. So let's say, Chris, you wrote down Billy Jean. Colin, let's say you wrote Sweet Caroline, also a very popular song. And let's say I wrote down, there's different strategies because I was like, oh, maybe a more modern stream hit that goes viral. So I wrote down Heather by Conan Gray, and we reveal our answers, and then we'll look it up.

So Billy Jean, 10 million diamond certified, so 10 million units sold. Sweet Caroline, one million units sold. Huh. Heather, four million units sold. So Billy Jean would win. Nice. Okay, so that's the format. Listeners play along the method and the metric.

And the source we will be using is the RIAA recording industry association America of America, America, certified gold and or platinum sales list. So basically, according to our IAA's formula, if you hit certified gold, that's half a million units sold, platinum, when it's one million sold, and then they track every subsequent million. So you get 2x, platinum, that means 2 million, 3x, 3 million, and so forth until you hit 10, and that's diamond. But that's not to say this is the only metric to measure success in a song. This is just a metric that we're using for the sake of this game. So basically you have to give me a song where the title clues in and fits into the theme. Not the artist, just the song title.

All right, all right. First round. The theme is solar system. Solar system. Anything that's part of the solar system in the song title. that just needs to be best-selling enough. Okay. Yeah, like I have one.

I'm like, do I want to stick with what's in the box? Or do I want to go to number three? Yeah. The box, the box. This is a good quiz format, Taryn. I already like it. You know, I wanted to do something like what you did, which was like the two is hard, three is better.

Oh, right, right, right. We all have to write an answer that we think the other person is going to put down, versus a void? Yes. Yeah, that one might have been lightning in a bottle. All right. I got something. I got something.

Yeah. Okay. Colin. I wrote down, fly me to the moon. All right. Just thinking, good old Sinatra hit, racking up tons of sails. I put,

if you're probably better, I put Venus because I was just thinking about, you know, planets. Mm. Like a panorama. I put drops of Jupiter by train. I love that we've got different eras represented. This is great.

Fly me to the moon, not even on the list. Oh. Not even on the list. And I'm also searching for it in other words, which is also the song title, Fly Me to the Moon. And then Venus, I'm your Venus. Also not on the list. Oh. Didn't crack.

I guess it's harder for singles. I guess it's harder for singles than albums to sell like certain number of units. drops of Jupiter by train eight times platinum so eight million units sold oh wow I know that's a shocker you know I thought I was going to put Venus too and I was like oh maybe black hole sun okay here we go next one next round the theme is colors please name a song where there's a color in the title Could it be a Taylor Swift song? She's got a lot of color, color names, lavender haze, red.

Could it be a classic? Ready? Okay, yeah, all right. Okay, I wrote down Blue Monday, thinking of the New Order classic. Oh. My mind went to the fabulous four singing Beatles, and their hit a yellow submarine. Ooh, good one. I put purple rain.

Oh, great, great answer. All right. I like your answer. Here are the results. All right. Beatles, yellow submarine, certified gold, which is half a million. That's achieved in 1966. All right.

So we're starting with half a million. And then Colin, your song was Blue Monday. Didn't cut the mustard. I'm sorry. Purple rain is not the sound. track but the single also certified gold Chris and I tie however the album of Purple Rain 13 times platinum incredible all right here we go next round the theme is non-human animals non-human animals in the title so you want to think about poetic it's it's it's

It's very strange because I really have no connection between my perceived popularity of the song and, like, how many copies did it actually sell? Sell. Yeah. So that was, I would say, I would say that was a pain point in this quiz because at first I was going to, I didn't know which metric to use. At first I was like, oh, Spotify stream, that seems like a little bit more on the pulse. But Spotify doesn't release plays for every single song, only for like. the popular, like the popular songs, they'll tell you how many plays. Right.

Sold is one metric. All right. Non-human animals. Colin, what'd you put? All right. I'm trying to like, like find a song that was attached to something popular that would drive its success over many years. I put Eye of the Tiger.

Oh, all right. All right. Of course, famously from the Rocky, yeah, movie. Yeah, yeah, sure. You know, again, wild card here. I put Who Let the Dogs Out? Oh, good guess. Great guess.

Whoa. Who Let the Dogs out hit $3 million. So went platinum three times. Three million is the number to beat. Let's see. I have the Tiger. Eight million. Wow.

Oh, my God. What? Eight million. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, there's like a sweet spot, you know, like in terms of, people buying singles, things being super popular. Wow. I think your attachment to the movie is a really good guess.

It's either nothing or incredibly huge. Yeah, wow. I'm shocked. The instrumental version went certified gold. That's a halo effect. That was how popular it was. Yeah, yeah. All right.

Our next theme is Days of the Week. The song title must have Days of the Week. of the week. I will not recycle Blue Monday. Good call. This is a, this is hard one. Good in the end of the tiger. I'm just going to head off here.

I'm not, I don't, Chris, I do not want to see you doing like, um, staying alive, parentheses, the theme song from Saturday Night Fever. Just, I know how your brain works, man. I just, I'm warning you. I'm warning you. Yeah. Yes, the theme, Arthur's theme. The best that you can do. I bet if that's the case, that's the number one.

That probably is. Yeah, all jokes aside, if that is, in fact, the actual name. But is there a song called Saturday Night Fever? There's Night Fever. Yeah, exactly. They're staying alive. But if that was the case, I would, yeah. The theme.

It would have to be really ends it. Okay. Yeah. All right. All right. I've got, uh, Friday, I'm in love by The Cure. Oh, wow, we're insane tonight.

I was going to say Monday, Monday by the Mamas and the Pappas. And maybe changing was the wrong thing to do. But I then hit on the song, another Saturday night, which I guess my issue is that's been covered by multiple people. Does it have to end up being like one person's version? One person's version, right. Okay, by Cat Stevens. Well, there's Sam Cook and there's Kat Stevens. But I didn't actually write down anything, so.

So I'll tell you. Monday, Monday, didn't hit gold. Another Saturday night. Another Saturday also didn't hit gold. Okay. Friday I'm in love did not hit gold. Wow. Is there one?

Oh, how about Saturday Night's All right for Fighting by Elton John? I was thinking about that. Yes. Saturday Night's right for fitting. Oh, wow. That would have done it. Bejee's, the album, Saturday Night Fever, hit Platinum 16 times. So 16.

million was just probably the best performing songs is sunday morning by maroon five even even rebecca black friday hit oh wow good for her yeah she hit gold really on essentially a novelty song yeah and funny her label the label listed here is r b friday ink it was smart smart It started her own company. Our last one. The theme is, song title that is a question. Can you put that in the form of a question?

Song title, that's a question. It doesn't have to end with a question mark. Oh, okay. Well, I mean, if you want to be strict, do you want to be... Let the dogs out. No. I will not.

I promise. I will not. Who did let the do? Never, we never resolved, you know. Our long national nightmare. Who? Who? Who? In all seriousness, I do think that's actually a very solid guess, but I have chosen to write down, do you really want to hurt me. That's good. By Culture Club. I've written down What's Up by the Four Non Blondes. Oh, nice. Oh, that was such a big hit. I went a different. route what's something that gets played in my house a lot and i put do you want to build a snowman oh yeah okay good are they selling that as a single are they selling that as a single okay okay

yeah all right cordon blondes what's up hit gold so hey million and what about do you want to build a snowman oh oh my gosh four times platinum yeah all right so i just went back and i looked this up because this all seemed a little weird to me. The RIA, prior to 1976, the highest award was a gold. Hmm. And then they stopped counting because you got the gold record and that was it. That's good enough. And then in 1976, they added the platinum award because records were selling more and more.

But then they did not automatically go back. If the album kept selling, or indeed if it had already gotten a million, but was prior to 76, they did not go back and say, oh, this is actually platinum or this is actually 2x platinum. What has happened is artists have gone and fought to get their stuff recertified because they're like, well, you said this is gold, but really it's like 4x platinum. You should give us the 4x platinum. So they don't automatically go back and recertify.

So you have to go and prove it. cases, you have to go, you have to go fight for it, apparently. And so certain artists have gone back and fought for it, but then some have not. Oh, oh, now I apologize that this is a not so accurate metric. Interesting. You seem very strange that it's like a yellow submarine sold 500,000 copies. I, uh, just on the side here, I've pulled up the RIAA rules here. I'm sure you saw these as well. They have some very interesting formulas here about how on-demand streams are like considered fractional amounts of a physical unit sale. So they have this formula where they come up with units. It's very interesting. I also noticed here way at the bottom of all the

list of things that they track is the master ringtone award, which is given out for songs that clock more than 500,000 ring. tone sales what a what a snapshot wow what a blast from the past yes you used to go on iTunes and you can buy the ringtone versions of things for some people more than 500,000 what's number one who's ringtone who's reentone one apparently they they tracked ringtone chart sales through through 2015 they they don't track them apparently anymore. So this record might never be broken. Apparently, Lil Wayne holds the record for the best-selling ringtone of all time for Lollipop. More than 5 million multi-platinum

ringtone certification among Lil Wayne's many other accomplishments. All right. Good job, everybody. Thank you for being on this experimental journey with me. That's our show. If you like our podcast, you might like other trivia related or trivia adjacent podcast that I was a guest on. You guys, you guys weren't on because you guys had real jobs and I was unemployed. I am on a couple episodes of Lateral with Tom Scott, amazing podcast with Lateral Puzzles. And I'm also on Drucker's Walk made by Good Job Brain fan Matt, which is a Wikipedia jumping. challenge where you go from one page and you try to get to a random page suggested by a guest me very cool so if you like trivia podcast listen to those too thank you all for joining me

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