Good Job, Brain! - 287: Lucky Number 13

Episode Date: May 21, 2025

Triskaidecaphobes watch out! Celebrate 13 years of GJB with (what turned out to be) an All-Quiz all around this auspicious number. Dust off your JNCOs and Doc Martens for "Pop Culture Jeopardy: The 13 Year-Old Chris Edition." Test your classic trivia smarts - can you name the 13th thing? Colin gets patriotic with a quiz about the Thirteen Colonies. And let your sweat drip down as we count down the points in the 13Q challenge. Also: BEGOTs 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, topsy, turvy, lovey-dovey-dovey, higgledy, piggledy, hotsy-totsy, silly billies. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and Offbeat Trivia podcast. This is episode 287, and of course, I'm your home. host, Karen, and we are your triumphant tribe of trivia triplets tripping on tricks and trisketes while trivializing trisketekha phobia. I am Colin. I'm Chris.

Happy 13th birthday. Wow. Anniversary to us. I saw it on Facebook, which is what reminds me of things that happened in my life. Time's gone by. I just check out Facebook memories. I'm like, oh, that's a thing that I did. It was a tweet from me that was like, hey, check out episode one of this new podcast we're doing called Good Job Brain.

I was like, oh, dang. Before we jump into our 13th birthday anniversary show, we got some big news. Our own Chris Kohler here. Hello. In the flesh on the screen. In the flesh on the screen. Sitting in front of my computer. Is a BAFTA nominee.

Sort of. I am not a BAFTA nominee. The game that I was, of which I was the editorial director, Tetris Forever, was nominated for a BAFTA award. What is the BAFTA? What is the BAFTA? It's the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. It is the British Oscars. Yeah, it's the British Oscars.

Yeah, sure. But they do film awards. They do TV awards. Yes, so Tetris Forever got nominated. Wow. Yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing. And, yeah, I was completely shocked.

I mean, we obviously, we submitted it for consideration. I really had convinced myself we had no chance. And then we found out that it's one of the nominees. And so I'm going to go to London. I'm going to put on, I'm going to rent first and then put on a tuxedo. Because it is a black tie event. Be on the red carpet? Yeah, they put us all on the red carpet.

You got to start practicing your posing. your stance your sysing my smithing yes smize oh tyra so i have a very quick trivia nugget on the show throughout the past 13 years we talk a lot about award records and of course eGOTs the eGOTs i mean it's only gotten bigger and more known since i think it was like in 30 rock in 30 rock you mentioned the eGOT i think it was the tracy morgan character yeah yeah Yes, yeah, yeah. Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony representing music, TV, movie, and stage. I here have a collection of Begot winners. Oh, okay.

The Begots. It sounds biblical. The begotten. Yes, which is BAFTA, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony. Wow, slow down. I did have a segment a couple years ago. about the regots, which are egot winners who also won Razzie Award, which is like the worst acting. So we have, now we have a more classy be got.

So here are some people who have, who are be gots. Uh, Audrey Hepburn, nice, Whoopi Goldberg. Uh, Mike Nichols, which is a very familiar name. He, it's interesting. He's like a comedian and an actor, but then became a director, a film director. Sure. So he's won for Annie the musical, a Tony for that. And then best director for the graduate. Yeah. And then he was also involved in Angels America, a very famous play. Jay Hud. Our girl, J. Hud, Jeffrey Hudson is also a Begott winner. Viola Davis, also Begott. We have, of course, the queen of nepo babies, Liza Manelli, who has the distinction of also being a regat winner. So she's a brigad. We got, that is, that's a bigger list than actually I was, I thought like it was going to be, I don't know, three or four people, but no, you got, you got a pretty nice little list there. I'm hoping to get the, um, the Grammy Oscar two BAFTAs and Emmy and a Razzie, so I can be a goober.

I can see, I can see the gears turning behind Chris's eyes. I was like, what can it add to him to? If you get this BAFTA win, it's not too late. You can still chase after. I will still be in nothing. I'm smelling Tetris Forever, colon, the musical. Going for that, Tony. Let's do it. All right. Well, without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot.

Here I have a random trivial pursuit card from the box of many, many additions and versions of trivia pursuit. All right. You guys have your barnyard buzzers ready. Listeners, let's answer some questions. Here we go. which London Cathedral has a U.S. Memorial Chapel dedicated to the Brits Brothers and Arms who lost their lives in World War II. Name a cathedral in London.

They're going to kick me out. Call it. St. Yes. Yes. Marks. That sounds British. Yes.

It is St. Paul's. St. Paul's. Okay. Pink Wedge for pop culture in Star Wars, The Force Awakens. Who carries a piece of the map throughout the film? Wow. Colin?

That is, it's R2D2. We find out at the end? Not on this card. Oh, okay. I think R2D2 has a separate piece. Oh, okay, okay. All right, no, you're right, you're right. Throughout the film.

Well, I mean, technically, he's off screen, so he has it. But maybe he has the whole thing. I was trying to be too clever. Is it, is it B-B-8? It is B-B-B-A. Yeah. Yellow Edge, Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated in Britain with fireworks and bonfires to mark the failed attempt of the 1605 plot to blow up what? Chris.

Parliament. Parliament. House of the Parliament. This is like the London card. I mean, I guess it's already two London questions. What we've noticed right before that like, you know, whoever writes them. kind of writes them in batches because you're not going to be sitting there

when you're playing the actual game. You don't read through one card, yeah. Purple Wedge, let's find out in the film Pitch Perfect, in which singing style do the Barden Bellas perform? Chris. A cappella.

Green wedge, for signs to nature, peanuts are categorized as which type of plant? Colin. That's legumes. isn't it? Legumes, correct. And our last question, Orange Wedge. Which Cosmetic gets its name from the Spanish or Italian word for mask? Colin. Mascara. Yes, mascara. Good job, Brains. Yes, our 13th birthday show, all about the number 13. We're embracing. It's not Triskeedecaphobia. It's

Just a deck of filia. Phileia, yeah. Yeah. Our show, we're no longer a tween. Our show is a proper team. Wow. So this week, happy birthday to us. It's our lucky number 13.

So, yeah, it's our 13th anniversary. So I thought that I would talk about my 13th anniversary, the year. that I turned 13 years old. So now I was born in 1980, which means that the given year and my age always match up very nicely. I turned 13 in 1993. In case you ever forget how old you are.

That is, Colin, you are not joking. That is how what I use to remember how old I am. Because the nice, the other nice thing is ever since the year 2000, you can take the first two digits of the year, and the last two digits of the year and add them together and 2025 add 20 and 25. I'm going to turn

45 this year. This formula will work until I turn dead years old. That's fantastic. That's good heck. Common core math, yeah. So I mean, literally, I'm just like, oh, 20, 25. Now I know what age I'm turning. So anyway, I turned 13 in 1993.

And as it turns out, you guys are never going to believe this. The year that I turned 13, is actually the year that a popular culture reached its creative peak. It's amazing. It's uncanny. That was the year that everything was as good as it was ever going to get, which is wild. So I figured, let's celebrate this by doing a quiz about stuff that happened in 1993.

Sweet. I decided that we're going to do this quiz. Let's really do it big for our big 13th anniversary show. We're going to play pop culture Jeopardy. Oh. There's 12 questions total, and I've split them up into six categories. And each category has a $100 question and a $200 question. Okay.

We're not going any further than that. Okay. So we'll play it like Jeopardy. I'll flip a coin or something and figure out who's going to have control of the board, as it were. At the end of the round, we're going to go into a final Jeopardy, where you will be able to bet all your winnings on one final our categories are

Oh, I'll put in sound effects Toys were us Here comes a new challenger CD romance It's a great It's a great Popcorn Flicks Love songs

Note that the word love is in quotation marks Meaning that all correct answers Will contain the word love And finally, impotent potables. You started the show 13 years ago, so you have control. Karen, please, take the honor. And each one has a $100 question and a $200 question. And of course, you are buzzing in.

Let's do love songs. All right, love songs for 100? For $100. All right, for $100. Coming in at number 99 on Billboard's year-end hot 100 was Taylor Dane's cover of this Barry White hit. Um, Colin. What is, uh, can't get enough of your love?

Can't get enough of your love is the title of the song. You have $100 and control of the board. All right. I don't remember that version. I was around in 1993. I do not remember that. Yeah, me neither. All right. Let's stick with love songs, Chris.

Let's go love songs for 200. Love songs for 200. Poo, Poo, Poo, Poo, Poo, Poo, Poo. Pugh, this is the triple play, where there's three answers. Whoa. And if you can name all three, you're going to get $200 for each one. Whoa. But if you can't name all of them, the other person could steal individual answers.

Okay. So you could get 200 or 400, but then somebody else could get 200. Oh, okay. All right. So, Colin, I'm going to give it to you since you had control of the board. Remember, there's three answers. The category is love songs, love and quotation marks. These huge hits by Whitney Houston, Meat Loaf, and UB40, all ranked on Billboard's

Year End Hot 100 for 1993. Okay, all right, Meat Loaf, UB40, UB40, and Whitney Houston. And Whitney Hughes, I mean, give me at least one answer so you can, you know. I'm blanking here. I'm blanking, Karen, you got a steal here. Boop, boop. All right, Karen, you have a chance to steal. These huge hits by Whitney Houston, Meat Loaf, and UB40, all ranked on Billboard's year-end, hot 100 for 1993.

I do anything for love, parentheses, but I won't do that. That's one. Yes, correct. I will always love you. Correct. UB40. Can't help all in love with you, Karen, he did it, the triple play. That's the one that I felt like it was nagging at me and I was so focused.

It's not wise men say. You got the name. Or only fools rush in. You remembered the category. So Karen, you're in, you are in control of the board. Okay. Category of love songs is eliminated. All right.

Popcorn Flicks for $100. Popcorn Flicks for $100. Contrary to popular belief, the creatures in this 1993 film were not. not all computer graphics. Animatronics and stop motion were also used. Karen. What is Jurassic Park? It's Jurassic Park.

What is Jurassic Park? Oh, yeah, I guess it should be answers in the form of a question. All right. I'm enforcing that starting now. Okay. A lot of people are just like, oh, yeah, it was all CGI. You know, CGI dinosaurs. Some CGI, not all.

Yeah. All right, Karen, you have control of the board. All right, popcorn Flicks 200. Pugh, Poo, Pee, Pee. Poo, Poo, Poo, it's a daily double. He's hiding them all in the 200s. I know. This is the daily double.

So, Karen, currently you have 700 points. You can risk as many of those as you want on this question about popcorn flicks. I'm going to wager it all. Go for it. You're going to make it a true daily double. Okay. Make it a true daily double. All right, Karen, this question is just for you.

The real name of the top. title character in this 1993 film was Daniel Hillard, but he was mostly known as this. What is Mrs. Doubtfire? Wow, you got it. You doubled up. A plus, yes, Mrs. Doubtfire. Well done, Karen. All right, Popcorn Flicks category is gone. Karen, you still have control of the board.

Impetit impotable. I was hoping you were going to pick that. eventually we were going to get there for $100. In 1993, Coors Brewing Company took some logger beer, filtered it through charcoal, and added citrus flavor to get this. Karen.

What is Zima? What is Zima? It is Zima. Zima is Lager beer filtered through charcoal with citrus flavor added. You can always listen to it. to our clear episode about... You could. That's right.

That's right. We've learned about, yeah, many of these. All right, is there like a daily 15X question here? Oh, a true, yeah. Impetent potables. Impotent potables for 200. A $7 million ad for Crystal Pepsi made its debut with the Super Bowl on January 31st, 1993, featuring this Van Halen song.

Karen was first. What is right now? It's right now. Yes. Come on. It's everything. Yeah. All right.

Karen is kind of running away with it. She's got 1700. I got to get faster on the buzzer here. Callan's 100 points. Karen, you still have control of the board. Toys were us for 100, please. Toys were us for $100. All right.

$100 points. The, quote, old face teddy bears from this toy line's 1993 debut actually are worth some money today. The rest, not as much. Old face. Yes. Karen. What is Winnie the Pooh? Incorrect. Oh no. You lose $100 points. The old face teddy bears from this toy line's 1993 debut actually are worth some money today. The rest, not as much. What do you think? Man, I'm not confident enough to wager. I'm not confident enough to wager. Okay, all right.

Collin is going to keep his money. Yeah. The answer is Beanie Baby. Oh. The old-faced, Petty Bear, Beanie Babies. Okay. When they debuted in 1983, actually can be worth hundreds of dollars.

It's just all the rest that pretty much... Yeah, right. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it like an old man face on a teddy bear? No, it's just the original face design. A little more actually bearish, versus like a cartoon bear.

Colin, you still have control of the board. Okay, let's go into CD Romance for $100. Oh, boy, we're skipping over. Okay, CD Romance for $100. Try and mostly fail to pick up women with wine-themed names like Sheblee, Burgundy, and Thunderbird in the sixth installment of this comedy adventure series. Colin. What or who, I suppose, is Leisure Suit Larry?

Is Leisure Suit Larry? Leisure Suit Larry. Great work. That was a joke that did not land with me when I was 13 years old playing this game, that the women in the game all had names like Chablis and Roseae and Burgundy. Then at the end, the final woman's name was Thunderbird. Right. Great, great gag.

All right, Colin, you've doubled up your money and you've got control of the board. All right, I'm feeling it now. Let's keep it spinning with CD Romance for 200 here. Love it. Nice. CD Romance for 200. A not especially risque bedroom scene was one of the revolutionary video sequences in this adventure game set in the haunted mansion of an evil toy maker. Oh.

Colin, it's not what, what is, uh, what is seventh guest? It is the seventh guest. Okay. You know, when you say it's not. I know, I got to censor myself. That's still a question. Terrible. Terrible.

Oh, yeah. Well, that's on Jeopardy, too, just as long as it's, uh, in the form of any, doesn't have to be a romantic question. Any question. That's definitely the right question. It's definitely the right, Colin, you still have control of the board. Okay. Uh, let's go back and finish out toys were us for,

200, please. Sounds good. Toys were us for 200. These two popular toy lines combined in 1993 to produce a line of adolescent reptiles with long, fuzzy, upcombed hair. So two lines. These two, named the two popular toy lines that combined in 1993 to produce a line of Adolescent reptiles with long, fuzzy, up-combed hair. I believe I heard the dog first. So, Karen. What is troll dolls and teenage mutant ninja turtles? Correct.

Correct. Turtle trolls. I do not remember the turtle trolls. I need to look this up. Two hot 90s toys combined to form turtle trolls. So it's an extra 200 points for Karen. Oh, it's cute. It works.

It works. work. Okay. All right, Karen, you have control the board and there's just one category left. Ooh, here comes a new challenger for 100. Here comes a new challenger, a category all about multiplayer arcade video games for 100 points. Notable Clintons who appeared as playable characters in this 1993 game included Bill and George, even though neither played professional basketball. Karen. What is NBA jam?

It is NBA jam. George Clinton and Bill Clinton. Yeah, both Clintons. And so Karen, you have control the board. Right. Last one. Here comes a new challenger. Here we go.

For 200, action figures based on this popular arcade game, were quickly rushed to market in 1993, mostly made up of recycled G.I. Joe parts. Karen. What is Street Fighter? What is Street Fighter? Fighters, tree fighters. Yes, indeed. They got those toys out really quick to capitalize on the success of it by taking previously existing G.I. Joe parts and molds and reconfiguring them into the G.I.J.

The G.I. Joe figure, Scarlet, I believe. Oh. Who was like a female ninja. Yeah, yeah. So it didn't really look like Chun Lee. It took a female ninja outfit that had like knives and stuff all strapped to her. But they paint. it like chumly colors and they made new heads for everybody okay i was gonna say it yeah what about the heads all right it was they just gave the dignity old bodies yeah uh so at the end of uh the first and only round of pop culture jeopardy colon has 400 points and karen has 1900 points um it's anybody's games anybody's game uh so we're going to go straight into final jeopardy The category is toys on screen. Okay.

Toys on screen. All right. So you can now write down how much money you want to bet based on the category of toys on screen. I'm going to tell you, Karen, I'm betting it all. I'm just going to tell you. I'm betting it all. It's all on the line for Colin here. I mean, I was going to bet 1,000.

So you're going to put some money up, basically. All right. Just to make it interesting. Make it sporting. Toys on screen. contestants have written their, their wagers. Here is the final Jeopardy answer. The original version of this toy lacked the voice-changing feature shown in the 1992 film, Home Alone 2.

The version released in 1993 had this feature and was much more successful. Good luck. It's so good. All right. Uh-huh. Okay. Everybody's locked in. Colin, you were in second place with 400 points.

Let's see what you put down. What is the talk boy? That is correct. Let's see what you wagered. As promised. All of it. All of it. All of it.

Bringing you up to 800 points. Karen, you had a command. demanding lead with 1900 points. Did Karen get Talk Boy? No.

She wrote, I forgot with a frowny face and crossed it out, then put Talk Man So close. Getting achingly close to it.

Let's see what you wagered L,000, which is 50,000, which means you look out. Karen, you go down, unfortunately, to 1800.

points, but you are the winner of our 13th anniversary game of Power Culture Jeopardy. Congratulations. I choked, man. Like, Final Jeopardy. You choked in Final Jeopardy. It just gives you too much nerves,

the betting and, yeah. Well, I don't like, well, that's, I don't like in a pub trivia when they're like, oh, we're going to wager points on the last question. Oh, I hate that, too. I hate it. Aside from this very serious game, of course, Chris, aside from this one, like when it's like, stuff on the line, I get so inside my own head.

I'm like, well, what if they're, what if they're thinking I'm wagering this? And then I need to counter that. And it's, yeah, I'm, all my brain power goes to math and not about answering the actual dang question. Right. Yeah. Last episode I talked about the neighborhood pub trivia. What I really like about their scoring is, so it's six rounds.

We're very used to six rounds. First two rounds, the answers are worth five points. Then in rounds three and four, they're worth ten points. And then Brown's five and six, they're worth 15 points. So there could be an upset where you do really well in the beginning and then you kind of choke towards the end. But it also keeps people staying there. Yeah. Yeah.

You're never really out of it if you know at least kind of passively what you're doing. Yeah. Yeah. Woo. Yay. Thank you, Chris, for the work that goes into putting something like that together. The writing. Yeah.

Wow. Thanks. Appreciate it. All right. My turn. 1313.13. Here I have questions about the 13th thing person or whatever it is. All right. So this is a buzz in quiz. All right. Questions about the 13th thing. Here we go. Question number one. Sitting between magnesium and silicon. What metal is the 13th element on the periodic table?

This is just free information, and for some reason, I just refuse to memorize it. We should know at least the first 20. That's our goal. There's no excuse. There's no excuse. Really, yeah. So, you know, self-flagellation aside. I did tell you it's metal. Yeah, true.

Tin. Incorrect. Dang. Aluminum. It is aluminum. Aluminum. It is aluminum. Aluminum.

All right. Aluminum. Okay. Fun fact, one of the first foods that was wrapped in aluminum foil for the first time for mass production. Oh, interesting. Tolberone. Oh.

Tolberone chocolate bar. That's a good one. That's a good one. Foil was on my mind recently, as recently as tonight. So my daughter, who is seven, she has recently discovered a love of burritos. Nice. The thing that she has yet to master, how to actually handle. The peeling of the foil, yeah.

So she's done, she's done the full, the naked burrito. Okay, no, no, no, no. Can't take all the foil off. She's also done the kind of like one bite worth of foil at a time. Yeah, the banana, until you have a child, you don't realize how many wrong ways there are to take the foil off a burrito. So I've been, yeah, kind of trying to show her, like, how to get the, you know, the perfect little tear and start with the top, you know, third to top half. Yes, the top third. Yeah, top third.

You swirl it. To rip it. Exactly. It strips on your way down. Like a grease pencil. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.

You can't lose the containment. Yeah. Structural integrity. And look, we've all been there. You get, you know, 45% of the way through the burrito and you're like, I can't do it. What? Tomorrow. Yeah.

Yeah. And you need to put it back. Yeah. All right. Next question. The 13th Summer Olympic Games slated for 1944. Okay. Was canceled due to.

World War II It was going to be held in what city Oh Colin Innsbruck Incorrect Okay Chris go for it

It's on your mind London London I was thinking because it's like Oh like cities that You know might have hosted the Olympics But then might have been in danger In World War II

Yeah yeah right Had to cancel Yeah Next question The Weedel, spelled W-E-E-E-D-L-E, the Weedle, is the 13th entry in what index? The 13th entry, the Weedle in what? Chris. The Pokemon Index.

The Pokemon Index, the Pocodex. All right, next question. A sports one, Super Bowl 13, Super Bowl X-I-I-I. What team defeated the Dallas Cowboys and was the first time a team has won three Super Bowls? Thanks to quarterback turned sportscaster Terry Bradshaw. I'm just, just let it be known. I'm just putting my buzzards down. That is the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Pittsburgh Steelers, the first team to win three Super Bowl titles, not necessarily in a robe. Yeah, overall. They don't have a backup. It took 13 games. Yeah, they don't have a back. to uh next question what is the 13th amendment to the u.s. Constitution all about oh see i only got through the first 10 with my uh with a bill of rights you're a mnemonic right yeah wow okay 13th amendment to the u.s constitution okay chris chris oh no i'm sorry it's too early i was going to say um

like the right to vote for women but i think that's i think that's much later it's a big one It's getting rid of something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it like getting rid of the language about like the language around slavery, but, but no, it's not. No, it is abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. Okay. Yeah. Yep.

All right. Here we go. Who was the 13th U.S. president, the last U.S. president to be neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Ooh. Is that interesting? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That is interesting.

13 okay so again again one of these things where it's like there's only a free knowledge they don't change same as one of our kids um lincoln was 12 right uh do i have that right chris uh i don't know if you have that right i don't think so we don't know anything about us president no i guess i i really don't i couldn't tell you the 13th president 12 was zachary taylor zachary taylor okay from home improvement Millard. Millard. Millard Fillmore. Miller, Fillmore.

Neither Democrat or Republican, that long ago. It was the last president. What party, what party was he? Whig. We've got to bring that back. Here we go. On a classic monopoly board, starting from the Go Square,

what color does the 13th square property have? Oh, interesting. Oh, okay. Starting from Go. Chris. Orange. incorrect dang 13th square

well I'm sorry the 13th square starting from go so counting all the yeah yeah so counting all the railroads and everything you skip over you do land on a property what color does that property have is it okay well I guess orange and I'm wrong so red red no it is

pink hot pink fuchsia pink you have like the ugly colors right you have brown you have start with brown light blue i think i'm doing this by memory i think i think it's right you get you got you got right white blue pink orange yeah red yellow green dark blue yeah yeah okay there we go that all makes sense i was just skipping over hot pink i i was totally just like grasping at how many squares there are on a side i'm like yeah i'm like yeah it's very it's very clean it's 10 so yeah okay okay all right

Here I have a last question, but this is mostly like a Chris Culler bonus round. Okay. Okay. So American Idol, a staple show. Chris has watched a lot of American Idol. I guess, yeah. Excluding Simon Cowell, there has been 13 judges. Okay.

Thirteen judges. Can you name all of them? Oh, my gosh. Or work together. See if we can name all of them. Well, sure. Okay. So Simon Cowell.

We're excluding Simon Cowell for some reason. So like Randy Jackson and Paula Abdule. Okay, yes, yes. Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen DeGeneres for one season. Yeah, for one season. Who replaced Paula Abdul? Well, anyway, now is like Lionel Richie and Katie Perry.

Okay. Did Christina Eckler do one of these shows? No. No, okay. She was on the voice. Keith Urban. Gary Underwood is on this season. Did it air yet?

It has. Oh, it's sorry. Okay, okay. Brian, but then Harry Connich Jr. Yes. Yes. Okay, there was. I didn't know he was on it.

Kara Diogarty. Yes. Was the one, was the fiery judge who replaced Paula Abdul. She was great. I think I'm out of answers here. J-Lo, Stephen Tyler. Oh, that's right. Mariah Carey and Nikki Minaj.

Hats off to you, Chris. Yeah. Woo, that was a good one. Give my best. Yeah. Hey, good job, everybody. Hey. Well, I think we know our task for the year is to memorize periodic table elements. All the American Idol judges.

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Good job, brain. And we're back. It's our lucky number 13 episode for our 13th birthday. Colin, what's next? I have loosely structured a grab bag quiz for you all around the 13th. original British colonies in the United States, as we now know it. So every one of the colonies slash states will appear once in this quiz. Okay, okay, okay.

So this is, so I'm giving you something to work with here, all right? We're going to do this as a write-down quiz. Okay, we'll start it off here with one that has shown up many times in pub quiz before. What is the U.S. state formerly colony? that is the birthplace of the most U.S. presidents, with eight, in fact, being born there. Eight U.S. presidents. What are your answers? Answers up.

Chris has written down the correct answer, Virginia. Karen has written down Ohio. Ohio. Which is round on the ends and high in the middle, but I don't believe it's one of the 13 original colonies. It's not, but that's where the most U.S. presidents were born. I see seven Karen. Karen, you're thinking, okay, so right, there's some controversy here, maybe.

There were seven presidents born in Ohio. Ohio will often, I read claim, William Henry Harrison, but he was not, in fact, born in Ohio. He was. Yeah. So the eight presidents born in Virginia, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson.

With some tug-of-war, maybe going over, who can claim WHS there. It is Virginia coming up on top. All right. In addition to Virginia, what are the other two colonies now states that are technically Commonwealth? Commonwealth. Two points available here. please give me two not one not three so not Virginia not Virginia Virginia was was one is one

Commonwealth of Virginia there are two more I part of the original I know one I'm guessing at the other all right what do we got answers up here Karen has written Maryland and Massachusetts Chris has written Massachusetts and Pennsylvania that is the correct answer Massachusetts and Pennsylvania so two points to Chris One point to Karen. All right. This Delaware company founded in 1958 by a husband and wife is best known for the waterproof product that bears the family name. For one point, what is that company?

Waterproof product that bears the family name. Boy, I'm going to feel. like an idiot when I don't know this, because I think you will have heard of them. I will have, I'm sure I will have heard of it. Let's see what you got. All right. Answers up. Chris has written Rain X.

Yeah. Karen has written Gore Texx, which is the correct answer. Yes, the W.L. Gore and Associates Incorporated company. Bill Gore came from DuPont. He had spent a number of years there as a, you know, a research chemist, basically. And yeah, went on to make his family's own name, Gore Tex. You know why I know, I know that.

that? Why do you know that? Because you had this exact question before, and I put DuPont first. Ah, nice. Nice. Because I was like, oh, that's a name. Yeah, no pun intended. There's threads connecting them, right. We'll stick, we'll stick with the, all right. We'll stick with the family businesses here. Herman Hillel and Henry Hassenfeld, three immigrant brothers, founded their family business in 1923 in Providence Road Island. From humble beginning selling textile remnants, what is their company better known as today? I will read that again. Herman Hillel and Henry Hassanfeld, three immigrant brothers, founded their family business in

1923, Providence, Rhode Island. From humble beginnings selling textile remnants, what is their family? famous, well-known company, better known as today. I really love, you say humble beginnings, and it's like, do you, oh, you make textiles? No, we don't. Other people make them, then they throw away the scraps, and then we take the scraps, and we sell them. It's like, wow.

What a great, just American immigrant business story. Exactly, exactly. Yep, yep. I know this 100%. This is a famous Rhode Island company. Oh, hold on. Oh, Rhode Island's not in the answer. Well, it was not in the answer.

No, I'm looking for the company name. What is this company name better known as today? I don't know. Karen has written LLB, not a bad guess, LLB. Chris has the right answer with Hasbro. Brothers. Yes. Aspenfeld brothers.

Yep. They started selling textile remnants. That's right. You get in where you fit in. Their next level of success was selling school supplies. and in particular pencil cases. And then kind of from there, you can sort of see how they angled their way into toys.

Okay, close game here. Close game. Two to three. All right. For one point each list the original colonies that begin with the word new. You will be penalized for wrong answers. So only put what you're confident of.

One point for each correct answer minus one point for each incorrect answer. Just to dangle the sword over your heads a little bit here. One point each list the original colonies now states, beginning with the word new. Okay. Okay. All right. I'm too scared.

Feeling good? I probably wrote two. Yeah, maybe I'm trying to cite you out here a little bit. All right. Karen has written New York and New Hampshire, both of which are correct. Two points to Karen. Chris has written New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, all three of which are correct. Three points to Chris.

Well done. Jersey was a trick. Two points to, man. All right. Catherine Hepburn, legendary Hollywood star, four-time Academy Award winner, still the most for any performer. She is also who comes up, if you Google, most famous person born in. blank what state i i i tried several ways of coming at this and i i got to hand it to her she she she just takes the cake katherine hepburn the most famous person born in what state the people of this

state are very proud of this interesting we've ruled out several colony states so far you know what's left right what's left in the hopper here i'll i'll throw in a freebie here uh michael bolton was also born in this state if that helps bring it over the line for you answers up you might just know it or not chris has written maryland karen has written vermont uh i'm sorry vermont it is not one of the uh 13 colonies uh it's not maryland though you both got it incorrect it is the great nutmeg state oh katty i almost we are not that proud of katherine heffler right now because i never even heard that piece of trivial all right i'm going to give you guys, our favorite here.

It is absolute worst taste. It's a 50-50. You might just know this outright. By area, which is larger, North Carolina or South Carolina? All right. Which is larger by area, north or South Carolina? I am very sorry to say that you have both written incorrectly in South Carolina. The answer as Tar Heels up and down the podcast.

listening dial are screaming. It is North Carolina. We are approaching the end. We are approaching the end. Two questions left here. The famed Appalachian Trail at nearly 2,200 miles long, passing through 14 states,

maybe the most famous hiking trail in the U.S., maybe, has a northern trailhead in Maine and a southern trailhead in what state slash former colony 2200 miles long running north and south from Maine to where what state

all right Karen very confident I know my 1993 pop culture but I don't know this you sure do you sure do no question you have both written the correct answer it is Georgia yes yes one point for you both

last question Oh. This legendary American original seasoning is a blend of 18 spices and is practically synonymous with the state of Maryland. Oh. What name brand seasoning am I looking for? Oh, no. Now I'm blanking.

Oh, yes. It's now manufactured by the McCormick Spice Company. All right, answers up. You both got it. It is Old Bay seasoning. Yes, that's right. Do you know what it was named after? Is it not Bay Leaves?

I assumed it was like the Bay, like the Chesapeake Bay. Oh, I thought it was all right. Oh, Bailey is interesting. I guess, no, it was actually named after the Old Bay Line, which was a ship line in the area. Which was named after the Bay. Yes. Yes. All right.

Well, well done, guys. Chris knows about that one. You know, it's not fair. because he was born in one of the original colonies. Catherine Hepburn, yeah. Yeah, in the Catherine Hepburn state. Yeah. Throughout history, royals across the world were notorious for incest.

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I profile remarkable queens and LGBTQ plus royals explore royal family trees and delve into women's medical history and other fascinating topics. I'm Lindsay Holiday and I'm spilling the tea on history. Join me every Tuesday for new episodes of the History Tea Time podcast, wherever fine podcasts are enjoyed. Time for our last segment, and I did something for our 12th birthday episode. I kind of made a game.

This is the format. I here have 13 questions in the order of most difficult to least difficult. Oh, okay. The first question is going to be worth 13 points, and it's going to be the hardest question. Okay. And we'll gradually move down to the easiest question, which will be worth one point. All right. So we're counting down.

This is going to be a write-down quiz. Each one of you guys will also get a block. You can block the other player after I've read the question. Let's say it's a sporty question, Chris, and you're like, okay, Colin. going to know this. I'm going to block him. And those points will not count if he gets it right. So there's a little bit of strategy, right? Do you want to block early for the hard questions? They're worth a lot of points, but chances are the other person might miss it. Or do you block an easier question that you think they'll definitely know, but then it's going to be worth fewer points

because it's easier. All right? All right. So you each have one block. Here we go. our 13 question game question we're 13 points what kind of animal is an Alabama water dog what kind of animal is an Alabama water dog you don't have to give me like a species do you know what I mean just what kind of animal is an Alabama water dog what kind of animal is an Alabama water dog. Okay. All right. Answers, no blocks. Answer is up.

Colin says fish. Chris says seal. It is a salamander. It is a muddy salamander, Alabama water dog. So cute. I think it's like such a charming name. Next question worth 12 points.

Other than Lesotho in South Africa and Vatican City, what nation is the only other country within a country oh right lasotho is famously surrounded or in south africa right yeah and vatican city is completely surrounded by it's like this is one we've we've had this in so many angles on the show before yeah it's really a test of our own memory all right is the only other country within a country all right answers up colin has put monaco chris has put sand domingo it is san marino oh i feel like half of each of our brain was

i know i know i was it was something like that and i just couldn't think of it one of the tiniest countries yeah and chris's tiny country quiz samarino is in italy there's actually a term for a country within a country it's enclave yeah these are all enclaves yeah yeah next question worth With 11 points, we're going down. In 11 days from today's day of recording, Suzanne Collins will be releasing the fifth installment of the Hunger Games series. Oh, my gosh. It's a prequel titled Sunrise on the What? Any blocks?

I'm trying to think what any of the other ones were called. Okay, all right. Well, I'll tell you it's Hunger Games. Yeah, the catching fire. right? Catching fire. Mocking J. Mocking J. Okay. All right. Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which is also a prequel. This next one is also a prequel.

Will you read the question again? In 11 days from today's date of recording, Suzanne Collins will be releasing the fifth installment of the Hunger Game series, a prequel titled Sunrise on the what? Sunrise on the blank. Okay. All right, answers up. and put mountain.

Chris wrote Seashore. His sunrise on the reaping, on the reaping. Next question, worth 10 points. No blocks used yet. What nation has the most title wins and is the current champion

of the cricket world cup? Oh, the most title wins. And is the current champion. So they've won the most times. Okay. No blocks. Here we go. Answers up, please.

Colin has put India. Chris has put Pakistan. Yes, rival teams. But the answer is Australia. Australia. All right. Next question worth nine points. What is the longest river in the world that flows entirely in one country?

Ooh. What is the longest river in the world that flows entirely? entirely in one country. You either think of a big country. Right, diminishing. The longer it gets, the greater the chances it might cross another country. It's cross another country. Yeah.

Okay. I'm going to block Chris Kohler on this question. Interesting. I just, I don't know. We're at nine through, I don't know. I mean, at a certain point, it's not going to be worth too much. I totally blew it. I think last time we did this format, so we'll see if I do that again.

All right, answers up. Chris is block. Chris has put Mississippi and Colin with the correct answer is Yangtze River. Yangtie River, China, big country, Yangtze goes across horizontally. That was what I was gambling. Oh, that it didn't. In English is called Yangtie River, but in Chinese, it's Changjang, which means Long River. So it's very easy to remember for me for that.

All right. Next question worth eight points. Points. What kind of animal is Mr. Rossetti in Animal Crossing, who was created to prevent players from cheating? See, this is what I mean by blowing it. I should have gone. I should have known there would eventually there would be a video game question. I should have. All right. Um, answers. Uh, I actually am not entirely sure that I got this right. Colin says badger, Chris says, gopher, I'm sorry, he is a mole. Oh, I know he digs his way out of the ground, but I don't know what kind of animal he is.

He's a very, very cranky mole. And when they're playtesting Animal Crossing, they notice that players would just simply change the system clock so that it can be the new day and the stores would open, right? Because like the villagers are living their own lives. The stores only open in certain hours. And so the players are like, oh, I'll just change the system clock. Instead of not letting you do that, they made Mr. Rossetti, who's a mole who would pop out after you've cheated by changing the clock. And he would give you a long-winded dialogue, just like dialogue after dialogue, just trying to tire you out so that you don't want to do it again. Yeah, it's very clever. All right.

Next question worth seven points. The first portable MP3 player was launched in 1997 in what country? commercially available portable MP3 player launched in 1997 in what country I thought I knew this but I'm second guessing myself answers up no blocks Chris put Japan Colin put UK England it is South Korea

South Korea was the first to do a lot with this technology they actually licensed the hardware for North American distribution to Iger Labs. So I don't know if you remember Iger Man. Iger Man was an early like MP3 player and those were the same machines. But yeah, South Korea. All right.

Wow. Next question worth six points. What are the two main ingredients in the classic UK dish bubble and squeak? Block. I'm blocking. Okay. Blocking. This is blocking Colin.

What are the two main ingredients in the classic UK dish bubble and squeak? All right. I'm not even sure I know, but. Answers up. Chris put mashed potato and leaks. Colin put mashed potato and sausage. It is mashed potatoes and cabbage. Oh, Chris, so close.

Potatoes and cabbage. Fry it up. Give it a cute name. Yes, personify it. All right. Next question worth five points. Which team does Shaquille O'Neal play for in his final NBA season? That's actually a really good question

Because he bounced around a lot Those last few years Where did he actually retire? Okay, okay, all right, team or city Or I mean, I guess both Yeah, either is fun I don't know Could have blocked on this one

I would have did a little bit more poker face If you hadn't already used your block, yeah Yeah, yeah All right, answers up Chris put Miami Heat, Colin put Phoenix Suns It is Boston Celtics Oh wow Yeah

Next question worth four points. We're whittling down the points. Beauty of the Beast was Disney's first Broadway musical. What Disney film musical stage adaptation just recently opened on London's West End?

Oh, man. What Disney film musical stage adaptation just recently opened on London's West End? I don't know. All right. You better find out, Chris. Maybe you go see it when you're in London.

It's one of my favorites. Collin has put Moana, Chris has put Hercules, and he is correct. Oh, I am? Zero to hero. Oh, snap. That makes so much sense. My daughter is actually in a little theater club production, and they're doing Hercules. I did, it should have put two and two together. With the Disney songs? She's panic. She and her little friend are pain and panic. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to be so embarrassed. It's so underrated. Oh, it's just like the gospel music. it's so great. Some of those lyrics are so punny. Oh, yeah. The line is like, um, find out how much egregion. How much does a Grecian earn? Yeah. And I'm like, oh my God.

Like, you know, my daughter, she's kind of just like bopping her head. Yeah. Last three questions. This one were three points. Which U.S. amendment was for the prohibition of alcohol? Which U.S. amendment was for the prohibition of alcohol? For the prohibition. To stop it. Yes. Anti-alcohol. Anti-alcohol. All right. Ready? Chris put 18th.

Colin put 19th. It is the 18th. So close. Good job. Question number two. This is classic question that shows up in pub trivia. I think you even mentioned it, Colin. Uh-oh.

Meryl Streep holds the record for most acting nominations, which is 21. Yeah. What actor's record did she surferferral? pass there are two there are two possible answers for this yeah there's actress and actor oh so somebody who has 20 nominations fewer than that oh fewer than that because she surpassed it and then a while ago yeah yeah oh okay okay it wasn't with 21 she passed it okay hmm yeah man acting so this is acting nominations yeah these are actors all right i mean here we go Colin has put spencer Tracy Chris has put Robert De Niro.

It is Catherine Hepberg. Oh my God. And Jack Nicholson. Connecticut's own. And Jack Nicholson, who was one that I was definitely getting up. Just going with the Joe Blogs answer. It's like, well, talked about it. He's won the most.

The most famous person from Connecticut. No, let me go with a different name. Oh, man. All right. Well, we're down to one. technically the easiest question. All right. I'm glad we used our blocks, Chris.

All right. Worth one point. Do you guys remember what was the one point question last year? No, certainly not. Last time we did this for our 12th birthday, the one point question was, what was the first episode of Good Job Brain about? Or what was the title of the first episode of Good Job Rate? So here is this year's one point question.

What was unique about episode 100 of Good Job Brain? Oh. What was unique? I don't think we've ever done it before. I don't think we ever did it again. Still, my all-time favorite episode of Good Job Brain is episode, Episode 100. Partly because of this. Okay.

All right, answers up. Colin has put first live show. Chris has put first live show incorrect. Oh, no. For our 100th episode, we actually had a hotline that people could call in and record messages, like congratulatory messages. And people were so creative. They had very heartfelt messages and stories that shared with us. and we aired all of them.

And, yeah, we had a good job bringing hotline. I forgot that. That's great. Woo. Yay. Go us. That was fun. I like to imagine there's some listener who's been calling that hotline every

week since then, you know, like, man, just they haven't. I don't know. They're going to get around to me eventually. That is our show. Thank you all for joining me. And thank you listeners for listening in. Hope you learned stuff about loose. Oh, no, it's the loose meets again.

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