Good Job, Brain! - 277: It's in the Details

Episode Date: November 5, 2024

Whip out your magnifying glass and let's rummage through trivia and facts about the details all around us: from "dinkuses" to Nick Fury's ocular ailment, from miniscule bat nipples to the flag of Portugal. Karen's got a quiz about unusual typographical symbols, and don't fall for tricky little marketing disclaimers in the mouseprint! Chris celebrates his own recent Guinness win with a world record quiz about the tiniest detailed things. And we got our first Music Round of the season so let's see if you've been paying attention to these oddly punctuated mega hits! Also: ant farms, ~live~ cryptic crossword solving thanks to AVCX @ avxwords.com and give the gift of puzzles 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, formerly formidable foretellers. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and Offbeat Trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 277. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your formless, forerunners formulating formaldehydes in formicaria. I'm Colin. I'm Chris.

Okay. Formicaria. Thank you, yeah, please. Plural, a formicarium. Uh, uh-huh. Okay, so we have terrarium, aquarium, aquarium, uh-huh, uh-huh. Penguinarium. No.

Dolphinarium. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. And formicarium. Any guess on what a formicarium could be? What kind of animal lives in formicarium? Oh, a formicarium? Formic. From the...

Man, I feel I... Species formid... Yeah, I've heard this root before. It's not ants, is it? It is ants! It is the fancy name for ant farm. Ah, formacarium. Formacarium.

Did you guys have ant farms when you were a kid? Like just that classic little rectangle. In Taiwan, we raised silkworms. Uh-huh. That was our ant farm thing. So you had an ant farm. Did you do? I did.

It was just like the one, you know, that they would advertise in the back of comic books back then. They may still do it. It's just, it's like a rectangle. And it's like green plastic frame on top. They have like farm features, like a little window and a barn and things like that, you know. I mean, like it's virtually, virtually two-dimensional, right? I remember we would feed them corn flakes. Like, you just crumble up little corn flakes and, like, that's what they would eat.

You know, I mean, the poor ants. Like, they live until the kids kind of get bored of watching the ant farm. But, yeah, it was fun for, I don't know, a week or two for me and my sister. They're working, and they're working and toiling away. Yeah, just for my entertainment. I feel like we did the ant farm maybe for like a hot second there, but I know we did sea monkeys. Oh, yeah, definitely, definitely. I will say this.

Brian Shrimp, I just looked at it. this stuff on the internet. Brian Shrimp are known as Artemia. Artemia. Ooh, like Artemis. Yeah. So I mean, we could go artemiarium.

Artemiarium. We'll do some focus group testing. Yeah, I'll see. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What we love more than trivia is we love seeing our listeners and friends do cool things. Shout out time. Shout out to

some peeps we know who are on this seasons trivia show, The Floor. Oh, hey, we're watching that, yeah. Hosted by Rob Lowe. We got Timothy Leung and our podcast pal from Triviality, Neil Fisher. Nice. Both of those dudes on the floor. Don't miss it.

The floor is all about these trivia nuts have one big expertise. Right. You're there to, like, defend your turf. You have to declare your area, right. What would you guys say is your, expertise. I mean, obviously I would say like, video games. Yeah. But I would always be scared to say something like that because then you know they're going to put

something up there that I don't know is you're like, oh, he's an idiot. Yeah. Probably video games. 25 years ago, I would have said Star Wars. Honestly, like I, just like the Chris scenario, like I would be up there and is like, okay, in this third edition comic side story, what droid? It was like, I, stop right there.

They're not going to, there is it. No, no. I don't know what I would put, but Karen, I will tell you, I was just talking with a friend of mine, he and his family and watching the show, they love it. And the one that cracked them up the most was one of the contestants, his area, his area of expertise, specialty, he was smoothies. Yeah, I saw that, yes. That's great. Yeah, I'm like, man, that's either extremely confident or extremely. just flailing, but yeah. Well, the show's also like visual, right? It could fit on head and there's like

a projection screen with a thing behind them. So they're not going to ask you what's on page 39 of it's true. It's true. I know if I said Star Wars, I would see Chewbacca and Yoda. It would be like Star Wars character and they just get more and more obscure. Right. Like Kifisto or Bip Fortuna. Right. I said my expertise would be Ethan Embry movies. All I know is that thing you do, unfortunately. I probably know more, but... Nick Papa Giorgio from Vegas Vacation. Oh, right, of course.

And Empire Records. Anyways, okay, and then another shout out to... We played Escape Room with her during Sparkle Khan. Listener and music teacher, Sarah Del Villano, is on Trivial Pursuit the Game Show. Posted by Lovar Burton. Oh, nice. I mean, that just elevates every...

Any experience. Yeah, holy moly. And then finally, I want to hype Amy Lucito. We no doubt have pulled our hair out doing her crossword puzzles part of AVCX. Nice. You guys remember the Onion? Yeah, absolutely. And then do you remember the AV Club, which is part of the Onion?

Probably all tried her hand at the AV Club crosswords. AVCX now has expanded to include more puzzles, a cryptic trivia as well. So they're doing their big membership subscription drive. And for people who don't know, cryptic crosswords, very, very popular in England. It's a crossword puzzle and it has clues. But the clues can be divided into a straight definition of the word and then like a word play that would lead you to that same answer. But the problem is they're mashed together and you don't know where the straight definition,

the standard definition starts and where the wordplay definition starts. and you're trying to figure out essentially where the divide is between those two definitions and then use those two definitions to figure out the correctness. Yeah, wordplay, which involves maybe intergramming, like reversing, taking letters out, adding letters in. So here, let's do a bit of live cryptic crossword solving. All right. I'm going to climb right up on your back here, Chris.

No problem. We're just going to ride this one through. Yeah. And I'm going to say, mm, yes, I agree. I was literally before the show went on just doing, Chris just doing cryptic crossbirds. I am not too proud to admit that Chris is going to be the driving force here. Here we go.

Okay, here we go. Here is the clue. I must replace half of cilantro in first course. Five letters. so this word is five letters I must replace half of cilantro in first course

okay well like half half of so okay so half of the word cilantro you think Chris like C I L-A or N-T-R- sure oh yeah so I must replace half of cilantro

oh intro intro there you go nice job yes I must replace not me Karen I but like the letter I The letter I must replace. Replace half of cilantro.

Yep, in the first course. An intro, first course. So it's kind of like that clue checks your answer. Exactly. That's the cool thing about cryptic crosswords is that it's self-checking. It's that, you know, since you have those two definitions, you know for sure what it is. There's also these tricky things where it's like half of cilantro in first course. And you're thinking about, oh, it's like the first course of a meal.

But it's not. It's like the first course that you take in college. Yeah. That's a well-written. clue where it has that kind of trickiness. Constructors, Sam Brody. Very, very nice one. Clean and clever. All right. Here's the next clue.

Eeyore's upset. You hate to see it. All right. Eeyors upset. Eeyors. You hate to see it. Is upset a trigger word here, Chris? Yeah. Upset, I believe, is a trigger word here for a

anagram. And so probably the word E-E-E-E-E-Y-O-R is upset or anagram. E-E-E-E-Y-O-R-E. Just so everybody knows, E-R is the stuffed donkey from Win the Pooh, spelled E-E-E-E-Y-O-R-E-Y-E-Y-Y-Y-E-Y-E-O-S, U-U-S, U-S, U-S, U-S, U-S, U-S-U.S, U-S-U-S-S-U.S-E-E-Y-Y-Y-S-Y-Y-Y-Y-S. I needed you to clue me that upset is code for anagram. Exactly, exactly. Yeah, you want to watch for words like that, like, bad, that it's all gone bad, you know? Messy.

Litter's up. Yeah, yeah. Constructor Adam Cohen. Last one here. Very clever. Secret store of bread and cheddar shared by word of mouth. Okay. Secret store.

Okay. Of bread and cheddar shared by word of mouth. This is five letters. Five letters. Okay. So shared by word of mouth usually indicates a homophone. That you're going to say the word, a word meaning cheddar. It could be cheese or it could be like money, you know?

Okay. And then you're going to say it out loud and it's going to be a homophone of the real answer, which is, I don't know what a secret store of red would be. Share, I mean, they're both, they're both slang for money, right? Bread and cheddar. Yes, yes, yep, yep. Secret store of, oh, I got it. Okay, so, yes, bread and cheddar are both synonyms for money. Another synonym for money is C-A-S-H cash, and C-A-C-H-E is a secret store, cash, and it's five letters.

So it's C-A-C-C-H-E, cash. Very nice. Cash, correct. Constructor Josie Giles. Ooh, nice. Good job. Oh, my God. Many of you out there is into this kind of stuff.

Please, ABCX is doing their membership drive. So treat yourself to some crosswords and some cryptics and more. Thank you, Amy. And thank you everyone else there. Well, without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, Pop quiz. Hot Shot. No, again, I did not come up with Pop Quiz Hot Shot.

It was a quote from the movie, Speed. Before many of our listeners were born, I'm sure. Yes, starring Sandra Bullock and Cano Reeves, Dennis Hopper is the villain, and he says that line, I did not make it up. We get a lot of listener mail or messages about like, oh, my God, I heard Pop Quiz Hotchot somewhere. It's like, no, no, no, we please cannot claim the credit. It's from an old movie. It's from a classic, a Hollywood classic film. Late 1900s movie. Late 1900s vintage, free digital. All right. So here I have a random

trivial pursuit card. You guys have your barnyard buzzers. Let's answer some questions. Listeners, play at home. Just yell them out, yell the answers out. Here we go. Blue Wedge for geography What city lay at the end of the 1,922 mile ride aboard the Orient Express which left Paris daily in 1889?

What's at the other end? Yeah, what a good question. That is a good question. So we know it's almost 2,000 miles away from Paris. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Colin. Man, uh, Cairo. Ooh, that is very acatha Christie. Incorrect. I'll allow two answers. One is a former name. Okay, okay, helpful. Istanbul.

Yeah, I was going to say. I was busting in. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's because Karen started doing the little dance. Yeah, she can't see it, but she's doing a little bop. Yeah, okay. Even old New York.

Yeah. Yes, Constantinople, now called Istanbul. All right, Pink Wedge for entertainment. As of 2016, which of these actors hasn't played a superhero in a Marvel comics movie? Whoa, okay. I like how now Trivial Pursuit, as of 2016, they're kind of future-proofing this. Okay, hasn't played a superhero. Okay, all right.

in a Marvel comics movie. Okay. Your list is. Ryan Reynolds. Liam Hemsworth or Hugh Jackman. That was Chris. Liam Hemsworth.

Correct. You're correct. Liam starred in Hunger Games. A good trick question, yes. Yes. But his brother was Thor. Here we go. Yellow Wedge.

In which state is the Democratic Party called the Democratic Farmer Labor Party. Really? Huh. And that's all a dash. Democratic dash farmer dash labor party. Never heard of this one. Colin.

Minnesota. Yes. Oh, really? Did you know that? Or did it a one in 50 chance? You know what? Honestly, Karen, there's so many facts kind of just stuck to the back of my head. Something told me to say Minnesota.

Wow. Purple Wedge. Which renowned British. British author dreamed up such characters as Miss Havisham, Oliver Twist, and Tiny Tim. Chris Culler. Charles Dickens. Yes, Chuck Diggins. Chuck E.

Green Wedge for Science of Nature, which computer company was co-founded. Yeah. Stop. Come on. Get out. Get out of here. All right. Everybody.

Apple I don't even hear I don't even hear the rest of the words of the question I just heard Steve and then a lot of laughing like okay

all right great okay of course okay with Steve Jobs who was the third person Oh Jobs Wozniak Oh yeah

Cool Ron Wayne Thank you Ron Wayne Ron Wayne A double firsty Ron yeah Yeah

Last question Orange Wedge what is the distance of the running portion in an Olympic triathlon? Man, all right. It can't be as much as a marathon, right, Chris, could it? I cannot imagine, no, and it's got to be... Well, I'll tell you, that's it's, Iron Man. Iron Man is a, the running portion is a marathon.

Okay, ten miles, five miles. I think ten, I'll go with ten, why not? Ten what? Ten miles? Ten miles. Well, it's probably metric. Ten kilometers. I was just, I was just, I was just, five miles. I'm just going to say it's probably metric. 6.2 miles or a 10K. So I am writer.

Oh, okay, okay, all right. That's what I said. Yeah, you do. I don't know if you're a writer. A writer. Yeah. Good job, Brains. Thanks.

This week, Colin, our topic. Yes, this one came in a little bit of a circuitous way. I was on the internet, as I often am, and I don't even remember how I got here, but I ended up on the website, mouseprint.org. Now, this has nothing to do with Disney, Karen. This is not anything Mickey related, mouseprint.org, which is run by Consumer World, a public service consumer education site. and what mouseprint.org is dedicated to is cataloging many, many, many examples of fine print or misleading consumer statements. The classic example of like you'll see an ad for credit card, free approved in big letters,

and then like down in the fine print, this is like pending approval, you know, or things like that. Mouse print, it's a great term. I'd never heard of this before. And I came across an entry that really tickled me. So I'm going to read this to you just very quickly here. It's very short. The title of this post, How Skimpflation Works in Restaurants. Now, have you guys heard this term skimpflation?

I know shrinkflation. Yeah, I've heard shrinkflation and greedflation. Take a guess. Yeah, I'm curious. What would you guess skimpflation means? Maybe they don't give you like the free bread that usually is there. Oh, yeah, yeah. They put less on your plate.

Right. A little fewer French fries. Exactly. Basically, basically, it's like they're not changing the price, but you're getting less than you used to, right? So here's the post. In October last year, Red Robin, now this is the restaurant chain, Red Robin, burgers, shakes, fries, that kind of thing, right. Red Robin announced an upgrade that it had a, quote, new and improved lineup of gourmet burgers that were, quote, juicier and more flavorful. And there's a picture of the ad that.

that Red Robin ran. And in the ad, $10 cheeseburger Tuesdays and it's got a, you know, close up picture of a cheeseburger and says, here are our new thicker, juicier burgers. And so, oh, okay, great, you know, and so people promoting it. One Red Robin regular commented on their burgers in the following post saying they are not as good as they used to be. Okay? Sure, yeah. The skinny here, if you will, is that the chain decided to basically buy cheaper meat for the burgers, and it is cheaper because it is higher fat content. It is not as lean. And that is why it is juicier and thicker because it is literally a bulkier piece because of the fat.

And then, of course, as you cook it, you know, the fat becomes juicier. Right. Back to the article. We did a little detective work to compare the current nutritional disclosures for their gourmet with the previous listing from a year before. And sure enough, they have a close up of the actual nutrition information from Red Robin of 2022 and October 2023. Okay, same size burger. The total fat was 47 grams.

The total fat of the new burger is 53 grams. The protein of the old burger is 41 grams, and the protein of the new burger is 37. Wow. Of course, this is the company honestly saying they are bigger, they are juicier, they are thicker. That's right. In the judgment and estimation of mouse print, this is a classic example of shrinkflation. So it got me thinking about one of my favorite sayings, which is the devil's in the details. And when it comes to fine.

print, disclaimers, all of this stuff. As a consumer, you really got to be on your toes sometimes and dig your way into the details. So I thought that's a great topic for the show. Details and what they can maybe hide and maybe not hide and how close we can pay attention to them. So this week, it's in the details. When I learned that that was our topic, my first thought was to look into typography, fonts, typos, misspelling, and I ended up falling into the world of typographical and Unicode symbols. Okay, all right. We use some of these symbols every day. Maybe there's some symbols that we don't even really see anymore.

But it's just weird to think that, like, these small, detailed symbols have their own official names. And it can contain so much specific meaning and reason for usage. I call this quiz, small symbols, big meaning. Oh, that's good. So I'll start with a callback from the very early days of Good Job Brain. We all know what a hashtag is, right? Can you each tell me another name that the hashtag symbol goes back? by officially.

Colin, please, please go first. One of the names is the Octothorpe. Oh, going right for the octothorpe. It's so fun to say. The other one is the pound sign. Correct. Can you keep going? There's a lot of official names. The Tic Tactoe Board.

No. The waffle stump. The So we have the pound sign, hash mark, hashtag hash. Thorpe, the number sign. That's your kind of common name, the number sign.

Libro Pondo, which is another kind of fancy words. Ah, yes. In some parts of the country, people call it a hex. Oh. Nothing to do with the hex color code. Oh, I didn't know that. People will colloquially call it a sharp. Oh, I've heard that.

Sure. Right. Like C sharp, like the programming languages. But technically, in fact, the musical notation sharp is a different symbol. It's angled differently Next question If you play board games Chances are high

That you will see and encounter a Let me say this very clearly A Quinn Cunks That is spelled Q-U-I-N-C-U-N-X If you play board games Chances are high that you will see And encounter a Quinn-Cunks

Where can you find a Quinn-Cunx? Where can you find a Quinn-Cunx? CUNks. Oh, gosh. Well, break it down. All right, board games. Dice. What's queen cunks?

What does that, you know, etymology? Five. Five. It's a star. I was going to say, is it like an X-Bain of a five dots? Oh, you are correct. Pips on the five on a die. Right.

Arrangement of five things where there's four at even. corner and one in the center. Ooh, that's a really good one. You can also rotate that. So it looks like a cross, like a plus sign. So you have a dot north-south, east-west, and one in the middle. We see that in Domino's. You're a flag nerd like me and my daughter and Chris's son.

Then you'll see some of a quincunx show up in flags like the shields of the Portugal flag. In Unicode, it's Unicode 2059. and it's officially called the five-dot punctuation. Right, because they have to have normal descriptive names too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So five-dot punctuation. You can type that out, you quen-cunx to your heart's delight. All right.

Speaking of Unicode, Unicode 040 is the at sign, the at symbol. Before the advent of the internet and email, what was the at symbol used for? And bonus point, what is it's now retired name? Oh. Oh, Colin, go for it. Well, I know that it was used like in grocers and retailers for, you know, like pricing this many at this price. I don't know if that was, okay. Yep.

It's an old invention. So ships logs. Yeah. Old grocery logs. Hundreds and hundreds of years ago, it shows up. It's like, oh, okay. three chickens at $2. Right, right.

Called a commercial at or a commercial a. Oh, commercial at. That's great. All right. Next question. In math, people will often use the therefore symbol as a shorthand at the end of the math proof. QED and then you'll have the symbol, which is like a three dot triangle, like one dot above two dots, right? Therefore.

What does it mean when you turn the therefore sign upside down? Oh. So it's a triangle with two dots on top and one dot at the bottom. It means, it means, therefore, is not. It's related to therefore. Like you're disproving a theory or? Mm, like it cannot be. An upside down, therefore, is a because.

Oh, okay. Officially called the because. Really? It's called the because. The because. Unicode because. All right. Next question.

This is a fun one. And if you're on social media these days, you will most definitely see the phrase, link in comments, or click below, along with a manicule symbol. Even in some of our own good job brain branding, you will see a manicule. What is a manuque? Some of these words are shook me to say, manacule. M-A-N-I-C-U-L-E. Colin, go for it. is it's the old time pointy hand, right?

It is the pointy finger. The pointy finger. Eat at Joe's, the cheers sign. Or like, you know, the road signs where there's like fingers pointing at different cities. You'll see them in very, very old books, old text, but also like the finger point emojis. You see it all over LinkedIn. Hey, comment below with your hot take, a manicule. Manicule.

As there, there should be a pedicule, which is like a pointing foot, like, you know, pointing with your toe, right, yeah. Okay, moving on to Unicode 2117. If a C in a circle is for copyright, an R in a circle is for registered trademark. Yes. What does P in a circle stand for? Oh. Chris, I think you know, you probably know this. Patton did.

Oh, no. The P in a circle. the P. The P stands for phonogram. No. It is called the sound recording copyright. Have you heard of this before? No, I have not.

No. Added to the Copyright Act of 1976. So, let's say, a song is being played at the radio. That song has two separate copyrights. One is for the musical composition. So whoever wrote the song, And one is for the sound recording. Ah, right, right.

So that's the P circle. Interesting. So you'll see this on like records and CDs or things like that? Yep, yep. So it's, which is a legal term applied to the master recording of. It doesn't have to be music. It can be spoken word sounds, but it is a specific sound recording of that recording. And so even if the same artist performs the same song somewhere else,

That would be a different sound recording copyright. That's Circle P. And speaking of Circle letters, they're called enclosed alpha numerics. You'll see, like, letters in circles. A Circle, capital V, you'll see in food labels to denote something as vegan. Ah. And then relate to that Circle Big U in food labels denotes kosher. U stands for Orthodox Union, which is the Jewish organization that, like, maintains the kosher certification.

Circle Big D, Circle Big R, Democratic and Republic Parties in the U.S. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a whole family of enclosed alphanumeric's circle letters. All right. Last question, here we are. We end with the Dinkus. The Dinkus, D-I-N-K-U-S, the Dinkis, denotes a logical break in written work.

So it's kind of like, hey, we're now talking about something else, but we're kind of still in the same chapter or in the same article. We see this online as well, usually before, like, jumping into an actual interview. They'll have, like, some sort of intro, and they'll have a dinkist. Usually a dinkist is a trio is a line of trio of what symbol spread out horizontally. Colin. It's three asterisks, is it not? Ding, ding dingus, dinkus, dinkus.

That is a really fun word. to say. Good job, everybody. We got the dinkus. We got the quincunks. We got the manicule. We got the octothorpe. I love it. I love that knowing our wonderfully nerdy audience, I bet there is somebody out there who knows the symbols just on the Unicode. Like, oh, 2441. Yeah, I know that one. Yeah. A classic. Yeah. All right. Well, I am holding something. It is the recently published Guinness Book of World Records 2025 gamers edition So let's take a look at page

93 in this book What would you look at that? There's a Guinness World Record for First Interactive Game Documentary which was awarded to Atari 50 the anniversary celebration It says in here Unlike your regular passive Netflix or YouTube experience

Atari 50, the anniversary celebration, allows console and PC users this chance to play along with more than 100 games from the company's history. And since I directed the interactive documentary, I think this is pretty cool. That is very cool. Do you get a real award? Yeah, so you order those. You can order the certificates. So we're figuring out now, how do we, yeah, of course it costs money.

Of course it costs money. But we can order multiple, though. So, hey, thanks. Yeah, yeah. We got a game of the world record. Yeah. So this got me thinking about we always do some kind of Guinness World Record, you know, quiz. And we just did our episode of the biggest this, the biggest that. And I'm like, oh, the details, of course. So to celebrate this episode about the little details, here is a quiz for you guys about Guinness World Records for not the biggest thing, but the smallest thing. So what I'm going to do for you guys is, I'm going to read out a description that is from the Guinness Records website about the award, about the smallest whatever it is.

But I'm going to blank out the word that identifies what exactly it is, the smallest what. Okay. So you can go ahead and you can buzz in for this one, okay? So here we go. The smallest blank is Crux Australis with an area of only zero. 0.16% of the whole sky. The smallest constellation. That is the smallest constellation.

Prux Australis, aka the Southern Cross. Oh, okay, I was going to say, is that the southern cross? Wow. That's the smallest? The smallest constellation. 16% of the whole sky. A little tiny little constellation. I don't know where the constellation is going to hang its, it's black.

It's so funny because that constellation is used so much And it's so important in like the Southern Hemisphere Yeah, and as you know, Karen, on so many flags and things like that Right, yeah And I can't believe it's like tiny Yeah, yeah, yeah That's counterintuitive, that really is Yep, yep, yep, yeah

The smallest pair of blank ever measure Measure just two millimeters wide and were created by the German manufacturing company Micreon using laser technology. The blank are so tiny that they had a photograph of a housefly wearing the blank on display. Whoa. Smallest pair of blank. Blank ever. Karen.

Pants. They did not manage to get a pair of pants onto a house flyer. Holland? Glasses. They did manage to get a pair of glasses. I was like, but housefly has too many legs? Would it be like three pairs of pants or would it be like one pair of six-legged pants? Oh, that makes so much sense.

Ironically, with no fly. Yeah. Well, wait, so they put the smallest glasses on a housefly. They made a pair of glasses that measured. just two millimeters wide. Well, also, don't houseflies have like a whole bunch of eyes? Look, I don't know if it's useful. I don't know how much it helped.

I don't know what would have been more difficult. It's like creating the glasses or sticking them on the fly. The world's smallest blank is mill ends blank on a safety island on southwest Nito Parkway, Portland, Oregon, USA. The blank is a circle of 24 inches diameter. It was designated as a blank for snail races and as a colony for leprechauns. Say the whole thing again. Sure.

The world's smallest blank is Mill Ends Blank on a safety island on southwest Nito Parkway, Portland, Oregon, USA. The blank is a circle of 24 inches in diameter. It was designated as a blank. for snail races and as a colony for leprechauns. It could be so many things. It could be. Okay. It is a government designated.

Karen. National park. It is, okay. It is a park. It's not a national park. It is, however, a city park. It is a city park. It is an official city park in Portland,

circle of 24 inches in diameter. It looks like it looks like it's like a round flower bed. Yeah, but it is, but it is technically all by itself. It is a park. Wow. The smallest blank by body length in the world is Kitty's hog-nosed bat, a.k.a. the bumblebee bat. A small, oh.

Aaron. Mammal. It is mammal. Nailed it. Yes. Not the smallest animal, but the smallest mammal by body length in the world is kitties hog-nosed back, aka the bumble you that little, little tiny little nipples for that baby. Just a tiny little bit of milk.

Okay. Moving right along. I want to just let our listeners know that Chris was about to do the little fingertip, tiny milking motion. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly, right. You got to put on the little, tiny little glasses. Yeah. You can get squat down on the tiny little stool.

The shortest title of any blank is Z, parentheses, Algeria, France, 1969, directed by Costa Gavris, parentheses, Greece. Karen. Film. Nope, I need you to be more specific than that. Oh, Colin. Documentary. Nope. Feature film.

More specific. More specific than that. Oscar winning. Correct. The shortest, because there's a lot of films with one-letter title. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is the shortest title of any Oscar-winning film is the 1969 movie Z. Yes.

That's great. That's great. The shortest time to be blank is, 45 seconds by Andre the Giant on February 5, 1988. Collin. The World Wrestling Federation Champion. Correct. What happened?

Apparently he sold his belt to the million dollar man immediately after winning it. I see. So he, yes, he was WWF at the time, now W. The shortest time to be WWE champion is 45 seconds held by Andre Ajax. Yes. The shortest

blank contested but subsequently admitted to probate in English law was that in Thorne v. Dickens in 1906. The shortest blank contested but subsequently admitted to probate

in English law was that in Thorne v. Dickens in 1906. Colin. Like, last will and testament? Yes. The shortest will contested but subsequently admitted. It consisted of three words. All for mother.

Oh. In which mother was not his mother, but his wife. Oh, okay. Okay. So, like, I'm father. she's mother. Yeah, right, right. And it was, in fact, allowed.

The shortest blank are those of Japan, Jordan, and San Marino, each with only four lines. Karen. National Anthem. National Anthem. Wow. When I was in high school and taking Japanese classes, They taught us the Japanese National Anthem, backwards. What?

Because you read it the other way? The book of like national anthems of the world had somehow inverted the lines and printed the last line. No! Through to the first line and we learned it that way. So now, and later on I realize, I wish there was a horrible story in which I was like asked to sing the national anthem at a baseball game. Right, right. But anyway, it does only have four lines, it's true.

All right. Last question. Scientists at the IBM Research Division's Zurich Laboratory. Okay. Built in November 1996, a blank with individual molecules as beads with the diameter of less than one nanometer. The IBM... Karen.

Abacus? It's an abacus. You didn't even need the rest of the question. Yeah. The IBM scientists succeeded in forming stable rows of 10 molecules along steps just one atom high on a copper surface. Wow. Yep. Wow.

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my detail I have a quiz for you called have you ever noticed because you know, the kids love Andy Rooney from the old 60 Minutes, right? There's no, you know, there's no figure hotter in the minds of today's youth than Andy Rooney. I have a quiz, yes, and it is about the details and descriptions of many common things from pop culture, science, history, things that we all have seen. sometimes we might even see these things every day and the question is how closely have you paid attention to these things you're so good at making these quizzes some of these we have talked about on the show before some of these have even shown up in the pub quiz so this this is news you can use here so let's do this as a write down quiz so get your writing implements ready

oh no did i use a sharpie on the whiteboard oh no oh yeah ew is this is booger tissues that I'm using oh oh no gosh this is a mess I'm making it worse it's in my raccoon wounds okay you guys ready

yeah yeah okay here we go first question in his most common depiction what two items of clothing does porky pig where the Looney Tunes character Porky Pig

How detailed do we have to be? I would like the item of clothing and the color, please. Oh, geez. I'll take what you got. We'll award partial points on this quiz. Porky Pig, what two items of clothing in his most common depiction?

Not saying there's an episode he was an astronaut or something like that. I'm talking to your stock Porky Pig. And when you are ready, answers up. No idea. Okay, Chris says red tie, blue hat. Very close. Karen has it correct, though.

Blue blazer red bow tie. That is, that is, and nothing else. No pants, no, no shirt. No shirt. Yeah. I looked at probably more pictures of Porky Pig in the last 24 hours. than in the previous 30 years. And it's very interesting.

So there are some subtle variations. So in the older renderings of Porky Pig, he would occasionally have white gloves on, as a lot of that characters do. Does he have hooves? He's got human-ish hands, but hoof feet. Yeah. Yeah.

But Chris, I will give you credit that he will, on occasion, also have a blue cap, but he is never, he's never shown. It's not as common. You cleared your internet history, right? This is all on incognito. Oh, man, believe me. Yeah, I'm going to get the weirdest targeted ads. I'm shocked.

He's not wearing a shirt or pants. He's just, it's all pink. It's just pink from neck to feet. To me, the jacket with no pants comes off as more naked than if he was just, yeah. He is more naked now. Oh, you've ruined everything. Next question. If you have a clear night sky and a decent telescope,

you can see the great red spot on the planet Jupiter, which, as you may know, is more or less a giant storm. Is the great red spot north of Jupiter's equator or south of Jupiter's equator? Does that change? It does not change. It does not change. change. Good question. Good question. It changes position, but it does not change the side of the equator that it's on.

All right. Claren did the same thing I did. I think it's brain. You both have it correct. You have both put south. Yes. And Karen, even with a little picture there to jog the memory. It is, it is in fact, 22 degrees south. Confusingly, you will sometimes see photos of it where it is appearing to be in the north, and the reason for this is that many, many astronomical telescopes will invert the image. Upside down! Yes, due to the mirroring, yeah, that's right. But it is in...

They didn't bother to change it? Well, you know, it's... There's no up or down in space. Yeah, these are arbitrary north and south distinctions. But yes, if we were to treat it like our planet, it is in the south, that's right. Got it. I learned that they're not even sure that

the red spot we see today is the same red spot that people saw hundreds of years ago. Whoa. They're just not sure and as as early as the 1600s there were people making representations of it but it may be a different

red spot or you know, storm or storm arrangement. Gen. Yeah. Yeah, it's right. Gen 2, gen 3. Okay, moving right along. How many rays are there extending from the statue of Liberties crown.

Oh, geez. Chris should know this. Chris should know this. Liberty heads. What are we calling? Resident Liberty Head. I do know this and I wrote it down and I got it right and then I glanced over at my window sill right there.

I should have confirmed that I am correct. But I know why also. Okay. All right. I know why. Didn't even occur to me that you might literally have one adjacent to your desk. I should have known. What's too many spikes?

I will tell you Karen. You can see them all from the front. Like there aren't like some like hiding in the back. All right. Answers up. Karen says 12. Chris says correctly seven. Seven.

Representing the seven seas and the seven wonders of the world. I read it as the seven seas and the seven continents is the explanation. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That's probably more correct then. Yeah. Yeah.

Marvel comics character, Nick Fury. Memorably portrayed by actor Samuel L. Jackson in many movies wears an eye patch. Over which eye. Over which I. I will accept a picture. Yeah. It is the same eye in the comic book original Nick Fury and Samuel L. Jackson. Chris Drew out too.

Oh, I'm sorry. You both have it incorrect. You both answered his right eye. It is, in fact, over his left eye. So if I'm watching it, it's like my right. Correct. It's a little bit less pirity. Okay, yeah.

Well, you think it's less pirity on one side or the other? Yeah. Interesting. Based on my drawing. Okay. All right. Getting a little more difficult here. The Safari web browser introduced by

Apple in 2003, all the way back in 2003, and of course installed on the iPhone since it debuted in 2007. It has an icon of a compass, the Safari web browser. What direction is the compass needle pointing? Although the design of the icon has changed over the years, the needle has always pointed the same direction, by which I mean the red part of this. the needle. If you like me have an iPhone,

and if you like me are on that phone every day, you see this many, many, many, many times a day. It's one of the eight major ones, right? Yes, it is one, yes, it is one of the eight major ones, yeah. Karen has written Northeast,

Chris has written Southwest, I love it. We got diametracket. Yes. It is, in fact, northeast. Oh, I think I Of course. I could see it was oriented. Slanted.

Yeah. You got the angle, right, Chris. Like it was 7.05 o'clock. You know what I mean? What are the hands? You know? Yeah, where's the red one? Let's head north of the border here for a good old Canadian question.

We have absolutely had this question in pub quiz before. How many points are there on the maple leaf on the Canadian flag? one of the most recognizable flags in the world. Is there a stem? There is a stem. I am not counting the stem. You're not counting the stem. There is a stem.

I am not counting the stem. How many points? One of our world's great, great flags, in my opinion. Yeah, it's good. It's just bold colors, instantly recognizable. Has some local flavor to it. Yeah. Eleven.

Our Canadian friend. 11. Rithing in their seats, screaming the answer out at the phone. All right. Karen has written 11. Chris has written 9. Karen, you got it. It's 11.

And this is what always trips people up. It's 434. It's not 3333. No. It's 1 3331. You got it. It's three big leaves in the middle. And then the two tiny little points on the side.

I kind of those were like, There's like vestigial. You know, there's like the dew claws of the... That's what makes it look like a leaf than like a duck flipper. Right, you know, like a duck flog. Yeah, it gives it its, uh, it rounds it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I learned that the proposed version of the flag,

that leaf did actually have 13 points. So kind of down in the corners, it had two little nubbins. Oh, 2, 3, 3, 3.3, 2.3, 2. 3.2. But yeah, but the committee felt it made it too hard to read, especially at a distance. It kind of just sort of blotched up together. So, yeah, right before it was officially, officially finalized, they knocked off two of the points and left us with 11. All right, good job, guys. Oh, my God.

Porky pig. Put some pants on that pig. Too much pig, yeah. And the creators of the popular science show with millions of YouTube subscribers comes the Minute Earth podcast. Every episode of the show dives deep into a. a science question you might not even know you had, but once you hear the answer, you'll want to share it with everyone you know. Why do rivers curve? Why did the T-Rex have such tiny arms? And why do so many more kids need glasses now than they used to? Spoiler alert, it isn't screen time. Our team of scientists digs into the research and breaks it down into a short, entertaining explanation jam-packed with science facts and terrible puns. Subscribe to Minute Earth wherever you like to listen. is welcome to our first music round of the season. Usually our music rounds are kind of like the ones you see at Pub Trivia.

It's kind of like named that tune. The Quizmaster will play a short clip of music and then you'll have to identify the artist. But since we are all about details and the importance of details today, I've created a special edition music round. So here I have compiled clips of really famous hits. There are even songs that you know and love, but do you really, really, really, really know them, though? Each of these songs feature very specific, punctuation, grammar, misspelling, and or detailed stylings in their official song titles. Okay, all right. So that might include parentheses in the song title.

It might include misspellings. It might include weird symbols, weird capitalization. So I'm going to play each clip. You're going to identify the song. And then you'll buzz in and say the title out loud, noting any symbols, capitalization, parentheses, typos, etc. So let's do an example. Let's do an example. So all the songs in the actual quiz are songs that you guys will know.

My example song is a song that is very, very popular this year. I'm not sure if you two know it, but this is an example, so let's play it. Good Lord. Someone put me up a double shot of whiskey. They know me and Jay Danehaw's got a hitching. There's a party downtown near a fish tree. Everybody at the bargain tips. Ooh, I have heard this.

Big hit this year. So the song by Shibuzi is called. And this is how you would answer. A bar song, parentheses, tipsy, end parentheses. Okay. They all have a twist. They all have a weird thing in it, even though these are songs that you know and love. So here we go.

Song number one. Johnny, I've got your number. I need to make you mind. Johnny, don't change your mind. Chris, and you have a 5309, yeah, and hit six. Chris, give me the official title.

Yes, I believe the official title is 867-5309, parentheses, Jenny, close brackets. Incorrect, Colin, take a stab. Oh, no. I believe it's the other way around. Isn't it Jenny, parentheses, 8. 867-5309 parentheses. Incorrect.

The official title is 867-5309 slash. Jenny, Big J. Any, no parentheses. Oh, me, Chris, okay, all right. Man. The slash, forward slash. That's Tommy two-tone, is that right? Tommy two-tone.

Okay. All right. Here we go. Number two. Each get a turn to you. Okay, all right, sure. So, I mean, I understand that the name of this track is, is the letter M three times,

M-Dash B-O-P Okay Is that good? And then I'm I'm gonna guess No spaces M-M-M-B-O-P Oh, interesting, okay

Oh, is it like three capital M's And then B-O-P or what? It is Three capital M's capital B Lowercase O lower-case B Okay, all right, okay One word

Yes, the song, we all know, 90s hit M-Bop by Hansen. It is Big M, Big M, Big M, Big M, Big B, small OP. Oh, okay. M-Bop. It's one, it's just all in what M-Bop. You don't stop. Yeah. There's a dash or anything like that.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so we each had kind of parts of that together. Yeah, yeah, we're together. I had to hear you say that there was nothing in between before I kind of could picture And I'm like, I see, okay, okay. All right. Good job. Next one.

Number three. All right. All right. Will Ferrell. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Damn it, Gene. Okay. Is this one, is this one, uh, open parentheses?

don't fear and then like close parentheses and then the reaper is yeah that was kind of my man it was like i'm just totally doubting myself now right yeah or is it said a funny thing because i cuaed this with him he says he thinks the don't is in the parentheses so it's parenthesis don't so it's about it's fear the reaper but it's don't that's like that's like the title of an evangelicalian movie What is it, like, negating? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it, don't fear the Reaper, open parentheses, more cowbell, close parentheses, or kind of about. Yeah, yeah, is it the Reaper, parentheses, don't fear, yeah.

The Reaper, don't fear it. The Reaper, comma. No, you know what, you guys, just simple, you, you, you're, your first answer, don't fear in the parentheses, and then the Reaper. So open parentheses, so I, oh, okay, so. You just let us go on and on and on. I just want to hear how creative we can guess. Yeah, normal title casings, but don't fear is in the parentheses. By Blue Oyster Cult.

All right, here we go. Next question number four. I do not know this one. Colin, you're going to have to dig it. Oh, man. Bone thugs and harmony. Yeah, yeah. They say crossroads a lot.

What is the title? What is the title of this one? Oh, my gosh. To be honest, I literally thought this song was called Crossroads. Until today, I was like, what? Is it X-Dash roads? The official title, song title, is The Crossroads, T-H-A Crossroads. Right.

The Crossroads, The Crossroads. All right, here we go. Rolling into Penultimate song number five. Don't you just know exactly what you think is? If you want my body and you think I'm sex, come, I'll sure to let me. I think, two possible answers, two correct answers for this. Oh. Interesting.

Oh. Hmm. Okay. So my immediate thought was, I don't think there's any parentheses, but I think it's do yeah, Y, A, think I'm sexy. I think it's the same with a question mark. That's what I've been in my answer. Do you think I'm sexy?

Uh-huh. Question mark. All wrong. This is a weird one. Chris, the ya is Y.A. Okay. There's something else spelled weird in the song time. Is sexy spelled with a three?

What? Or like two exes. Daya. Think I'm sexy question mark. D.A. Space. Y.A. This is some British thing.

I don't. Think I'm sexy. question mark or it is also written on the cover da apostrophe ya apostrophe think i'm sexy no question mark wow okay da y'all think i'm sexy he's a 10 but he spells it d a 8 all right last last clip here clip number six What's your party with us? You'll be falling in love. California girls

We're unforgettable Daisy Duke's bikini. Okay. Okay. I think I know. Katie Perry sang this with left shark. Yes. I think it's, I think that it's, well, maybe now I'm, now I'm, now I'm, uh,

doubting myself, but it's, it's California spelled like. you would spell California, but then the girls is like G-G-U-R-L-Z. Or just to be different, I'll say G-I-R-L-Z. Oh, okay. Both are incorrect. It is California, I spelled normally, G-U-R-L-S. Oh, yeah, we both want there to be a Z, but it's not. It's like once you're on the train to incorrect spelling, like you just want to just keep

throwing in incorrect letters there, right? Big C, Big D, California girls. Like, you know, the maker of third-party video game controllers, Mad Cats? Yes. Not spelled with a K. Oh, but with a Z. But with a Z. Everybody wants there to be a K, but there's no K.

It's C-A-T-Z. That's too much. Exactly, exactly. That is my details in the song title, Tricky Quiz. Wow. That is tricky. We got like one one out of those, right? Yeah, yeah. That was hard. No, no Prince songs. Nothing compares to you.

Yep. When he did that, it was really clever. You know, it was like, oh, he was the number two. Wow. Yeah. Can he do that? Is that legal? Yeah, exactly. That's our show. Thank you all for joining me. And thank you listeners for listening in hope you learn stuff about the world's smallest things about porky pigs attire about typography and song titles you can find us on all major podcast apps and on our website good job brain.com this podcast is part of airwave media podcast network visit airwavemedia.com to listen

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