Good Job, Brain! - 297: To Market, To Market

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

Attention Brain Mart shoppers, the aisles are now stocked with fresh market trivia! Come spend your fake coins in Karen's worldly quiz about famous marketplaces. Learn about the real origin of the ubiquitous plastic shopping bags. Companies with one-letter stock market symbols, and Chris finally finds out why this little piggy went to the market, but that little piggy stayed home. ALSO: "Spot the Impostor!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Chickety, check, check, cherish chums and cherubic champions. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and Offbeat Trivia podcast. This is episode 297, and of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your mellow fellows reading Othello, eating portobello jello, and emitting bellows like Tom Morello. Hello, I'm Colin. And I'm Chris. During the break, I heard another good egg corn that I wanted to share with everybody.

Beep, Eggcorn watch. If you're just starting to listen to the show today, an egg corn is when somebody says the wrong word, but it sort of makes a weird kind of sense. That's the quick explanation. Here is the egg corn that I heard that I thought was very good. if I was if I'm trying Colin to tell you something and I'm and I'm trying to get this across to you and I'm talking and talking but you're just your your mind is closed to this to this new information that I am offering you and it is as if I am talking to not even a person not even a brick wall but I'm just I am talking to the person who cares the least about this story that I'm telling the grim reaper

himself. I'm telling my story, but it doesn't matter because my words are falling on death's ear. Oh, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. On death's ears, right. Falling on death's ear. Why would death care what you have to say? Why would he care? Why he would not care at all? He doesn't care about your story. He doesn't need to listen to your advice. Because you might be begging, begging death. Be like, don't take me. It's not my time. Right. He doesn't listen to that. No. Falling on deaf ears is the, um, is the phrase D-E-A-F falling on deaf ears. Yes. Death's year, though, egg corn decider says, that's an egg corn. Ding-ding, ding, ding, ding. Veruca salt. It's a good egg bad. Wow. Right. Well, this is a trivia podcast without further ado. Let's jump into our first general

trivia segment. Pop. Oh, wow. The doorbell again. Did somebody order, uh, did somebody order that hash brown that I owe Karen? Well, let's go check it out. Let me walk to the door. Whoa! Hello, everyone. Hey! Oh, hey!

Why? It's Jennifer Chew, my big sister. Your very own sister. What are you doing here? I heard you guys were heading towards 300, so I came by with a casserole to celebrate. Oh, nice. What's in it? Broccoli and cheddar.

Oh. Well, send that right over here. Yeah, that thing's not. making it out alive. Yeah, exactly. It's going to be gone by the end of this recording. Well, thank you. Thank you for the casserole. Yeah, we'll get the dish back to you, but we are recording a podcast right now, so we do need you to, um, unless you're, are you doing anything right now? Not really. I mean, I could stay. I could hang out on your couch and stick around. Wow. Yeah, okay, sure. Why don't you stick around for the show? We're about to jump into our first general

trivia segment. Do you want to join us? You know, I just happen to have a buzzer with me, so I think I can't. Heck yeah. All right. It's time for pop quiz, hot shot. Wait, can I hear the buzzer? My daughter, when she sneezes, she goes like, and I'm like, it's so unsatisfying. That's what I do. I keep it in. Why? I don't know, because I don't want to spread germs everywhere. It makes my skin crawl when someone like stifles a sneeze. Really? I was like, ah, just let it out. It just, it was. wants to be free. Let that sneeze out. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I think it comes with age or it comes

from being a dad. Cameron's sneeze has evolved into a very loud explosion. If you're not doing a dad sneeze, making everybody wonder if there was like an earthquake or something like that. You're doing it wrong. Yeah, yeah, a sneeze with a wind up. It's one of the rights. All right. Well, you guys have your buzzers. Jennifer has a baby sneeze. Collin's got the horse. says the rooster, and I here have a random, trivial pursuit card. Let's answer some questions. Here we go.

Blue Edge for Geography. Which seafood festival in Niceville, Florida, celebrates a fish that shares its name with a decades-old hairstyle. Hmm. Okay.

Fish. Old hair. hairstyle. You have two rollo decks going in your head. It's like a slot machine. The fish reel is going over here. My hairstyle reel is going over here. I see if they match up. Looks like Jennifer got it, maybe.

Is it a mullet? It is a mullet. Oh, of course. Mullet here says thousands of hungry mullet fans flock to the Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival each year. Wow. And I believe the way the festival is set up is the business is in the front. I know where you're going to say, hey, hey you.

And the, and the. party is in the back. You know, had to, had to. Can barely contain myself. Oh, God. You're crying. Pink Wedge for entertainment. Which political drama that stars Kevin Spacey is based on a 1990 British television

mini-series? Call it. That's House of Cards. House of Cards, correct. Jeff, before we move ahead, what would you say is your... Your strong categories and trivia. I would say generally pink. So, like, entertainment.

I know just enough about sports to, like, kind of be on the surface. I know some random literary facts. Not great in history or geography. All right. So Jennifer watches, like, a lot of TV. Like, a lot. I mean, the pink wedge covers a lot of cultural knowledge. It really does.

You need someone like that on your team. Yellow Wedge for him. History, We Never Sleep, was the slogan of which famous 19th century American detective agency. Chris. I mean, the Pinkerton agency? Yes, correct. Full title, Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Okay, all right.

As if you remember the logo. Only old-timey detective agency, I think of. Who else is it? Yeah. Eddie Valiant. Purple wedge For arts and literature Which mystery writer

Is the best-selling modern novelist Mystery Writer The modern is kind of weird This person's dead by the way I think it means modern Not like contemporary But like the modern era of literature Yeah

Chris Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Incorrect Okay giving Jennifer a chance. Jennifer. Agatha Christie? Agatha Christie.

Yep. Green Wedge for Science and Nature, what term is used for the online connection of smart household devices such as central heating controls or light bulbs? Whoa, Colin. Are they just looking for internet of things? Is that what they're looking for? Yes. It is.

IOT. IOT. IOT. Internet of things. Try not to overthink. And we have an orange wedge, everybody's favorite sports and leisure. Let's hope it's leisure. Let's hope it's hockey.

We know this. In which sport can you hear the terms Yorker, leg break, and sticky wicket. Chris? Cricket. Cricket. Yes, we had a segment about sticky wicket. Sticky wicket. Well, Jeff are here is my older sister.

Colin, you have a Gen X friend now. And we got some good older sibling energy here. Well, I guess Chris has older sibling energy too. I do. I am the older sibling. I'm also Gen X. Yeah. You're like in between.

I was born in 1980. I was right at the tail end. Okay. We're on the outer edge, though. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And more importantly, she has all the dirt on you, Karen. She's already exposed my dirt on the podcast.

I feel like listeners may remember me from such hits as my sister has a security blanket. She still has it. She's not saying it's false. She's just saying that you're just, you know, airing it. Right. Yeah. You know, I would say she is my trivia hero.

I think she inspired me a lot to mostly read encyclopedia. Try to beat me. You try to beat her or I used to hustle her on a our MS-Doss Jeopardy game where I just memorized all the answers to beat her. She's like, that's really weird for a six-year-old to do that. We used to play Millionware, not Jeopardy, but Millionware, which was kind of a knock-off Jeopardy. Well, it was her dream.

It's her dream to get on Jeopardy, I think, early on. I've tried out twice. I've passed the online quiz and got to the in-person try-out once. I don't know. It's too hard now. It's hard. Well, we're happy you're here joining us as our guest. And props to you.

It's 9 p.m. for us on West Coast time. She lives in D.C. So she's here at midnight. I'm in the future. It's Saturday for me. That was fun. Let's do another card. Let's do another card.

Let's go crazy. Road to 300. More trivia. The better. Here we go. Another card. Blue Edge for Geography. In which city are the Bluebird Cafe,

the Ryman Auditorium and Grimeseys located. Jennifer Nashville Yes Nashville How do you know that I've been there I haven't been to those places

but I've been to Nashville Also Nashville is like the Bachelorette Party capital of America Oh is that so All right next question Pink Wedge for entertainment In the 1960s Citizens of Point Pleasant

West Virginia Were spooked by which mythical creature with red eyes and wings What's their What? Yeah, what's their folk monster, right? I'm sure we've talked about this Unlike cryptids

Chupacabra No Wings, it's not mammalian Okay, right? And it's not, it's too far south It's not the Jersey devil It's okay, humanoid It is

Mothman Oh Oh, yes. Wow. Which the sightings are the subject of the Mothman Prophecies. Oh. All right. Yellow Wed for History, President Fillmore installed the first bathtub in the White House in 1850.

True or false? The first bath, what? The bathroom? Bath tub. Bath tub. Bath tub. 1850. Colin.

True. It is false. But here is. the interesting bit. A journalist in 1917 published this as a hoax. But people keep citing this fact. Oh, fake trivia. Yeah. Purple Wed for Arts and Literature, which two Broadway stars originated the roles of Elphaba and Glinda in the stage production of Wicked. Let's do it, Chris. Why, you name one. Sure. I'll go, I'll say, uh, Kristen Chenoweth originated the role of Glinda.

And Jennifer. Edina Manzell originated the role of Elphaba. Who made cameos in the new movie as well. Indeed. Green Wedge for Science and Nature, which smartphone pioneer announced in 2016 that it would stop making its updated classic keyboard model?

Chris. Blackberry. Yes, it is Blackberry. And here we have the last question. Orange Wedge for Sports and Leisure. which WNBA franchise won the league's first four championships? As I set my buzzer down. Wow.

All right. It's all you, Colin. I feel like my brain is 50-50. Was it the Comets? Was it Houston? It is the Houston Comet. Awesome. That's great.

That was a good one. Woo. Another pop quiz. What's the newest WNBA franchise? Oh, the Valkyries. Yes. They're quite the buzz here. They got a mascot.

They got birthed out of an egg. It was much fanfare. Well, how did you get birth, Karen? As close listeners of the show probably know one of my hobbies is collecting video games, which means, amongst other things, I'm at the flea markets a lot. A lot. Oh, yeah. Now, because there's been such high-profile sales of high-dollar video games,

everybody at the flea market is looking for games. But here's the thing. I have the advantage. And the advantage that I have is I actually know about video games. So there are things that people would look at at the flea market and their eyes would pass right over it. Somebody had like just a box for an Atari 2,600 game. But I look at that. I'm like, that's really, I've never seen that before.

That's super rare. I'm like, how much is that? It's like, a dollar. I'm like, here you go. Sold. The haggling and the, you. you know, they're trying to, you know, trying to get away with something. It's so much fun.

I mean, it's really, the hobby is acquiring video games for my collection, whatever way I can. Yeah. And flea markets are like one way to do it. But it's certainly something that we thought, wow, well, that would be an interesting topic for one of these shows, which would be just like the idea of the market. So this week, to market to market.

To Market, To Market. I don't even know where that's from. Oh, it's from a nursery rhyme in which they say, well, it starts to market, to market, to buy a fat pig, home again, home again, jiggity jiggedy jig. Now, that is not the market and pig-related nursery rhyme that I want to discuss. So, but put that aside for a bit. Okay, okay. So we all grow up hearing these weird, weird, weird, old, old weird nursery rhymes that our parents recite to us or we find them in a book or whatever it is. And we don't really question what they mean sometimes.

And then as adults, sometimes we start hearing those stories of, you remember that nursery rhyme that we heard when we were kids. They have hidden morbid meanings to them. Right. This one was about plague or this one was about somebody dying or this one was about the king getting assassinated or this is how they made fun of this, you know, public figure without mentioning him, that sort of thing. So I recently heard something about this nursery rhyme that I'm going to recite for you. Okay. This is the version that you would typically hear. All right.

This little piggy went to market. This little piggy stayed home. This little piggy had roasted. beef this little piggy had none and this little piggy cried we we we all the way home now typically this would be read while clutching a baby's toes right in order this little piggy then you end up at the little toe for the piggy that cried we we we all the way home yep yep yep not sure why that little piggy is doing that now what i see a lot of these days is there'll be some internet posts and people were like it just dawned on me

what this little piggy went to market means. I thought the piggy was carrying a little, like, pushing a little shopping cart going to the market, buying his food, but it must be a little pig went to market like they slaughtered the pig and they took him

to the market to sell him and then the one that stayed home wasn't ready to be killed yet and the one who had roast beef was being fattened up for next week and oh my God my childhood is ruined. Now, I read this. I'm like, I don't actually think that's the case.

Do they feed the pigs, where do this come from? Also, I had no idea what this poem was even supposed to be. What's the piggy at the, you know, if that's all the case, what's the piggy at the end doing? You know what I'm trying all the way home? Like, is it a thinly veiled reference to like the British government of the 1800s? Like, I don't know.

The pig is Winston Churchill. So I had to, like, I'd like go do some research, right? Okay, so I start reading this poem. which is called this little pig. This poem gates back to at least the 1700s. And it seems to have been, even from its earliest age, associated with, like, babies and counting on their toes, right? It appeared in a 1700s book that was called Tommy Thumb's Songbook.

And there are various versions of this very, very old book that are scanned and preserved online, but I could not find a version with this home in it, unfortunately. And this is not ideal because a lot of these old nursery rhymes are an oral tradition, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They evolve over time. They lose the original lines and the meanings. The words change and you don't actually know anymore what it actually was supposed to represent. So you got to go back, back to like these old printed versions and see the words that are printed.

So I did find a version that's dated to the early 1900. that is different enough that I think kind of explains what's going on here, and a little bit better, right? 1904. All right. The modern era. Yes, the modern era. This pig went to market.

That pig stayed at home. This pig had roast meat. That pig had none. This pig went to the barn door and cried, week, week for more. So now I start to get it. This is a Virtues and Vices poem. It's like Goofus and Gallant. Contrasting.

This pig got his ass out of bed and went shopping and did his chores. And this pig did not. Meanwhile, this pig got to have roast meat because he went to the market. He bought his stuff. And that pig didn't have anything because he's two pigs. No, and then I think it's maybe three, I think it's three pigs. I think it's two pigs, and then the pig at the end, the fifth pig is the pig who didn't do anything, but also isn't content with having nothing because he went to the barn door and was going, wee, we, we, asking, begging for stuff. So it's like, what pig do you want to be the pig who does his work and gets to eat, not roast beef, but roast meat, you know, some kind of other meat?

Or do you want to be the pig that's like crying at the barn door? Now, maybe if we were to track this all the way back to the 1700 version, which, unfortunately, I was not able to do. There might be a little bit more in there. Maybe there's more lines or something like that. Who knows? But that seems to be the idea. Wow. Clearly connected.

I mean, there's no doubt. I mean, that's a step on the path to where we ended up, right? Exactly. Now, there's some other virtues and vices poems from the Tommy Thumbs. Tommy Thumb's songbook from the 1700s is good reading. It gets a panger. It is hot. You've got to read this book.

One of them is called, it's called Liar Liar Lickspit, all right? 1788. Wow. Lyer, liar licks spit, turn about the candlestick. What's good for liars, brimstone and fires. Wow. That's the whole thing. Want to be really clear.

You're supposed to sing these songs to your children to put them to sleep. To me, it almost sounded like liar, liar. on fire. Yeah. Oh, sure. Absolutely. I mean, I can't draw a connection right now, but it's entirely possible that you could. Yeah.

So we can at least say, based on this research, that the little piggy did not get killed at the market and that he did, in fact, go to the market with this little basket to buy roast meat, roast of meat of what. Yeah, roast meat. I should not end this without mentioning the version that my son recited when he was two years old and we were eating dinner, and he put his foot up on the table and started grabbing his toes, and he started going, this little piggy is one, this little piggy is two, and then did that whole thing all the way until this little piggy is 10, no 11.

When you recite the piggy poem, like I instantly in my heads, I see a fat foot or I see five pigs, like in my mind and it never occurred to me that it's comparing two pigs it's two and a half pigs it's two pigs potentially with a third like out of nowhere pig at the end yeah wow yeah yeah so how many little piggy's two maybe three yeah two is yeah two ish all right I have a quiz a quiz about famous marketplaces around the world around the world we like eating We like shopping. We like traveling. We do like those things.

This will be an experiment because I don't know if mathematically this will work, but we'll see. This will be a write-down quiz. I'm going to ask you a couple questions. Here's the game. Each one of you will start with 10 coins, 10 pieces of fake currency, 10 coins. We're going to the markets. We're going to spend or maybe earn more coins. Write down an answer

And you get a question right You get 10 additional coins If you answer it wrong You will have You will split it You will lose 50% of what you currently have And if you pass Nothing happens

Okay, all right So it's always it's always a bet Essentially to handle These questions are very interesting I would say they skew a little bit on the hard side, but I think I've put enough clues and I feel like you guys are all very smart people. You can

figure it out. And then the winner will get an actual prize. Whoever ends up with the most amount of coins at the end of this round will get a real prize from me. Sweet. Listeners, if you want to play along, keep track of your quote

coins. Here we go. Question number one. Don't forget. If you get right, you get plus 10 points. If you get wrong, you lose half of what you have. And then if you pass, you get nothing happens. You get zero. All right. Here we go.

In the town of Alzmere, Netherlands, you can find the biggest market dedicated to what? In the town of Alzmere, that's A-A-A-L-S-M-E-R, Al-M-M-E-R, you can find the biggest market dedicated to what? All right, write down your answers, please. Lock it in. Chris, are you locked in? Yeah, I'm locked in. Jennifer, what do you have?

I have tulips. Colin? I also have tulips. Chris? I did not write down anything. Oh, the correct answer is flowers, but I will accept tulips. The biggest flower auction and flower market. In fact, it is so big to accommodate all the flowers and people.

It is the ninth largest building in the world by four areas. Wow. So it's huge. Imagine if you're allergic. Why did I come here? And where's the exit? Oh, I'm right in the middle. I'm in the ninth largest building.

Good job. Next question. You can get local goodies like Lamingtons and sausage rolls at the Queen Victoria Market, located in what populous city in its country? You can get local goodies like Lamingtons and sausage rolls at the Queen Victoria Market, located in what most populous city in its country. Too hard? No? Oh, I hope not.

I already wrote my answer down. Throw me a bone here. No. Okay. All right. Lock in. Jennifer, take it away. Sydney.

Collin, what you put? I put London. Chris, what you put? I put nothing. The correct answer is Melbourne, Australia. I was debating between the two. I was debating between England and Australia. Yeah, I was not even close to close, but you were close to close.

For our Australian friends, I know they get ticked off when we pronounce Melbourne instead of Melbourne, but I feel like I'm like pretending to have an accent. And to me, it sounds, I'm being rude. So I'm just going to pronounce it Melbourne And I completely understand it's With an Australian accent, it's Melbourne. All right, whoo, here we go. Next question.

Very recently, after a Jeopardy contestant gave a wrong answer, Ken Jennings responded by saying, No, sorry, Dan, we are sticklers in Seattle. What was the incorrect answer that was given? Again, this is a right. around about marketplaces in the world? Let me read the question again. Very recently, after a Jeopardy contestant gave a wrong answer,

Ken Jennings responded by saying, no, sorry, Dan, we are sticklers in Seattle. What was the incorrect answer that was given? Ken Jennings, host of, and also a big winner of Jeopardy, he's from Utah, but he lives in the Seattle area. It's like, do you want to guess? money or not this is hard but hey look like Jennifer we've been up and down and we're still right where Chris is right so let's we got to go big here all right I should bet it all yeah

making a true daily double cam I'm trying to decide if Karen is doing some reverse psychology but I know you're just relating the story of what happened all right yeah yeah all right got my answer down I'm pretty sure you know what a famous marketplace in Seattle is called, but what is the wrong answer that was given? Well, yeah, another correct answer. That made Ken Jennings say, we are sticklers in Seattle. Ah, right. Okay.

Time's up. Jennifer. Okay, I just changed my answer. Okay, go ahead. Oh, I know. Was it, did the person say Pike's Place Market? Pike Market. Chris, what did you put?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Chris is going to win. He's going to win. He's going to win, not having guests a single question. Nothing. The correct wrong answer that the contestant gave was Pike's Place. Yes, it is not a possessive.

It's not, I'm Mr. Pike. Right, right, right. It is just Pike Place. Okay. All right, all right, all right. So having my points now, oof. All right. Whoa, what a roller coaster.

Here we go. Next question. How many questions are there? Six. Six more questions. Six more questions. Okay. Okay. All right. What Arabic term is often used to describe markets in the Middle East and North Africa, especially markets selling spices and gold. Hint, it is not bizarre. B-A-Z-A-A-R. It is not bizarre, which comes from Persian and is used to describe markets in Central Asia. So let me read again. What Arabic term is often used to describe markets in the Middle East and North Asia? Africa, especially markets selling spices and gold. It is not bizarre, which is of Persian origin and used to describe markets in Central Asia. So if you're in Central Asia, it's bizarre. If you're in North Africa, Middle East, it's called this. All right. It's good. Scrabble word. All right. Here we go.

Answers up. Jennifer. Suuk. S-O-U-K. Okay. Colin. I'm taking a page from the Kohler Playbook and big old past for me. All right, Chris? Would someone please pass the butter? The correct answer, I'm sorry, Colin and Chris. It is Suk. Oh, she got it. Nice.

Well done. I have vaguely heard that word before, but I was never going to come up with it. So passing was the right play, you know? Good thing I watched Sex in the City. I was just going to say me. Aha. Now the secret comes out. From Sex in the City, too. Not the first movie.

The sequel feature film. The offensive sequel. Yes. Where they go to Abu Dhabi. She leaves her passport while buying shoes at the souk. Yes. Of course. Got the sister mind melt going here.

I know. I would like to raise a awareness of the fact that I think that the quiz master and one of the contestants on this show may have an undisclosed prior relationship. It's a quiz show scandal. Next question. Held annually, the plaza outside Vienna City Hall hosts the world's largest market dedicated to what? Held annually once per year. The plaza outside of Vienna City Hall hosts the world's largest market dedicated to what?

No, I'm not saying selling. What? What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean?

What do you mean? What do you mean? What else do you mean? You mean physically largest? Or what do you mean, not dedicated to selling? I'm not sure. I'm not asking like what product it's selling. Oh.

Oh. Held annually, the plaza outside of Vienna City Hall hosts the world's largest market dedicated to what? Okay. Huh. is this like like a like a philosophical concept like a like a like a person i'm just i'm flailing here a little like a dedicated to but it's not the thing that they sell all right people locked in sure hollin locked in all right jennifer what what you got you can't sell the spirit of christmas good a good answer colin uh i put sausage You didn't just thinking of Vienna sausages? Yes.

They all got little cans. They all arm up. That's right. Indian sausages, even Viennese. Probably not. Probably not. Chris? I decided to take a chance and write an answer and I put Christmas.

Yeah. Christmas. Christmas markets. But this is the biggest one is in Austria. Okay. Yep. I have a point of order question for you, Karen. Are we rounding up points here?

So do I, do I have two and a half or do I have three? You, uh, I'll see how I feel. Okay. Well, it's money. It's money. So you have two, yeah. You have two coins and a half coin. Okay.

All right. You have a hey penny. Uh, yeah. Thanks, Chris. A far thing. No problem. Thanks, thanks for lobbying on my behalf there. We got more questions.

She never said these were decimal-based coins. Yeah. Ooh, foodie question here. The first ever Michelin Star awarded to a street vendor is for the dish called Soya Chicken Rice and Noodle. The stall that sells this is located in what country? The first ever Michelin Star that was given to a street vendor. So not fancy food, a real Michelin Star that was given to a street food stall was for a dish

called soy, chicken, rice, and noodle. And this stall is located in what country? Hmm. Hmm. Chris, not that long ago, him and his wife were on a mission to eat the stars. To eat the stars. You guys had a lot of stars. We did okay.

We did okay. It honestly stopped for me when we went to a expensive Michelin's starred restaurant in San Francisco and it sucked and I was like you know it turns out that we should just you know probably not necessarily

follow where the Michelin stars are and just eat good food you want to go to in and out so anyway all right answers locked in Jennifer what did you put I put Singapore oh so you did answer okay Colin I'm going trick question I'm putting America oh like it's in like it's in like

Like somewhere, you know, like New York or something. Got it. Very good guess. As I said, I am a market expert here. I just got another 10 coins in my pocket. I'm not risking them taking a flyer, so they pass again. Smart man. I kind of left out.

The dish has a full name, which is called Hong Kong Soya chicken rice. Yeah, let's see. Located in Singapore. Oh, amazing. Wow. Oh, geez. So that's 1.25. It's like, okay.

I've got a coin and a quarter. Is Jennifer running away with it? Yes. Hey, if she turns, I just lose it all. All I can say is I feel like I am playing my perfect game by not guessing when I have absolutely no idea what the answer is. You're putting the long game. Just to recap, let's do a quick scores recap.

We have three more questions. Jennifer has 50 coins Colin has 1.25 And then Chris has 20 coins We have three questions So if Jennifer decides to answer

and gets it wrong Then half of it is gone And Chris if you decide to answer correctly I'm not decided If you do answer correctly The next three questions Then you can catch up Yeah

See Karen I think I'm in the driver's seat here With 1.25 points Because that's right I'm playing free here Chris Chris knows I have to answer each time. That's true. You have nothing to worry about at this point. You are incentivized to put down whatever you can. Play the high variance game. But also, Colin, you're in

like a like a Zeno's paradox situation when you, you know, where technically you can keep having. You'll never reach zero. Well, yeah, I tried to raise this question earlier because I sort of saw the writing on the wall. But yeah, that's all right. We'll deal with what comes. Okay, next question. London's Saville Row has been the go-to neighborhood for bespoke suit tailors. It's also the headquarters for what fictional secret society featured in a film with the same name. London's Saville Row has been the go-to neighborhood for bespoke suit tailors. All the celebrities get their custom fit suits, tradition tailors, artisan, craft. It's also the headquarters for what fictional secret society

featured in a film with the same name. Oh, right. Oh, dang it. I got a chance to make up some points here. What are those movies called? I, like, purposely made, if you get it correct, you get plus 10 points. Because if it's double points, when you're doubling a small amount, it doesn't really get you anywhere. It doesn't.

It doesn't, doesn't catch up. Also, though, the key is you need to remember the answers, too. You're serving it up for me, too. I'm so angry right now. What are these called? Would it be helpful if I gave you the director? No, I mean, I've seen them. I can picture the movies.

I can, I can, oh, what is it called? Picture the lead after saying it. Okay, okay, that's good advice, right? Boop, boop, boop, boop. Jennifer, what do you have here? Kingsman. Colin? I couldn't come up with it.

I couldn't pull it. I, yeah. Do it pass? Yeah. Chris? Never heard of it my life. Pass. Yeah, yeah.

The correct answer. is Kingsman, you didn't need to give me the colon, secret service. Secret service, yeah. Starring Egsie, Terran Egerton. Violent. Very violent. Elton Johnson, the second one. Next question. The Grand Bazaar is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world. That's a big G and a Big B. The Grand Bazaar is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world. located in what current country that went through an official name change in 2022?

So your answer is the current name of this country where the Grand Bazaar is located, touted as the largest and oldest covered markets in the world. Country went through a name change in 2020. Very recent. Very recent. They used to be called one thing, but now they're calling it another thing. I guess that is the definition of a thing. Thank you.

Thank you. Oh, thanks for the hint. Okay. Okay, I'm just trying to think of countries that have changed their name rather than countries that I associate with large grand bazaars. Yeah. Okay. All right. All right.

Walk in. All right. Jennifer, what do you have? I have Turkey. I believe that's how it's now pronounced. Turkey. Turkey. Yeah.

Turkey. Yeah, good answer. I put Chequia. Chris? Nothing. Pass. Pass. Okay, the correct answer is Turkey Yay.

Turkey, yeah. Turkey, no longer called Turkey. Ah. Now Turkey A, T-U-R-K-I-E, Turkey-A. You are K-I-E, Turkey-A. Some news organizations honor it. A lot of them still don't. Yeah.

All right, last question here. Should we make it interesting? Oh, yeah. I feel like Jennifer has no. reason why she would want to make this interesting at all. Whereas Colin and I are like, yeah, like, as interesting as possible. I think, I think we, I think you have to answer. No pass on this question. Oh, okay. Okay. That's interesting. I like that. All right. Last question. What are the standings? Jennifer has 70 coins. Colin has zero point six to five coins.

Coin of a coin. And Chris has 20 coins. You have to answer for this. Here we go. Well, that means Jamfrey's going to win. Well, you basically, yeah. Yeah, no matter what. But just to make it fun. This hasn't been fun. Here we go. Last question.

The most expensive thing sold at the famous Tokyo fish market is usually what? The fish market, there's a name, but I just want to clear. There's like the old classic fish market. And then there is like a new location. They moved it, yeah. They moved it. So this is like collectively in the history of the Tokyo fish market. It's like a thing, right?

Like, not the spirit of the thing. It's not the spirit of Christmas. Right, right. It is, it is the, you. Kindness. You can even be very specific. The most expensive thing sold at the famous Tokyo fish market is usually what. You know what?

I'll give you a clue. It is a fish. Yeah. Okay. Oh, appreciate it. Thank you. Well, I mean, what if you put caviar, you know. No, no, no, that's fair.

It's totally true, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, right, right. Jennifer, what'd you put? Bluefin tuna. Okay, Colin? I also put tuna. Chris? I put tuna.

The correct answer is blue fin tuna. Everybody got it. Yay. I'll do that put tuna as well. Fun story about this. This usually happens at their annual prestigious New Year's auction. People want to buy the first big bluefin tuna catch of the year. Oh, this is a lucky thing. And I'm willing to spend more money. And you also get a lot of media coverage

out of it. You got photographers, you got reporters. So if you know, you're the owner of some sushi chain restaurant and you're like, oh, I'm the one who spent three million dollars buying this bluefin tuna, you're going to be all over the news. Got it. Got it. So you're also kind of buying publicity as well. How expensive are we talking about? The record happened in 2019 for $3.1 million. What? Yes. And then... For a tuna. For a for a for a for a for a one single year. First of all, they're big. I mean that's a lot of money. Yeah. They're really big. Okay. And when you're when you're buying it like that, it's like that person, it is entirely possible that they they probably made their money back. Yeah.

I searched, yeah, right, right. Because they sell this, they sell this much of it for like 20 bucks. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So that was number one. Number two actually happened just this year. Sold for a $1.3 million.

And in the news headlines, it described that this tuna was the size of a motorcycle. Oh. That's great. It does really help you visualize it. Yeah. Yeah. So now I'm like equating like, okay, even though it's 1.3 in my head, I'm like, one million dollars equals. a motorcycle fish.

I wonder how long it takes for them to get that big. Like, I wonder how old the tuna was. Oh, interesting. I bet we can look that up. Tuna's caught at the ages between 3 and 15, depending on the species. Age is estimated by analyzing the annual growth rings in the tuna's ear bones, similar to counting tree rings. That's cool.

All right. Good job, everybody. Ooh, Jennifer, destroying. Jennifer destroyed everybody, 80 coins. Congratulations with 80 coins. I'm going to give you 80 hash browns. Oh, okay. Better than Chris's one hash brown.

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You're listening to Good Job Brain. Smooth puzzles. Smart trivia. Good job, brain. Hey, we're back and we're on the road to 300. We got a special visitor today. Jennifer, my big sister, is here. She just smoked everybody in that last quiz.

And this week, we're talking about markets. We love to talk about these. I've got a world famous invention. I've got an inventor maybe with mixed feelings about their creation. And, you know, Chris, like you, I as well kind of got to thinking about some childhood memories here as I was brainstorming for this show. I settled on a very, very great 1980s memory. I was very young. I came across, I don't remember what magazine it was in, the cheap and easy tricks for DIY toys, you know, like stuff you can build from, you know, paper plates or straws or whatever you happen to have, you know, around your kitchen, right?

And so what I found was how to, how to make your own paratrooper out of household stuff that you would have around. Okay. You would need, you know, a regular action figure. You need some string. And then you need a standard plastic shopping bag. And you tie the string to the plastic shopping bag handles, tie the other end around, you know, under the armpits of your figure and toss it up in the air or off your parents' roof or whatever. Your pilot on the roof. Yeah, yeah, your mom asks what you're doing.

You tell her, don't worry about it. If your family was like mine, you had somewhere in your kitchen, you had a drawer or a cabinet. Inside that drawer or a cabinet was a just an unreasonable amount of plastic shopping bag. Yes, like a nest. Yeah, yeah, like a den of a plastic shopping bag. We do plastic bags in a plastic bag. They're more comforted that way, you know? Right, right, right.

It reminds them of their youth. So when I asked my mom, like, oh, can I use a plastic shopping bag? She's, yeah, like, knock yourself out yet. Don't worry about it. We're good on plastic shopping bags. Not as a space helmet, but otherwise. Right. All right.

Now, just to make sure we're all clear what I'm talking about here, all right? I'm not just talking about any bag that happens to be made of plastic. I am talking about the very classic, very particular, super thin, one sheet. It is handles shaped out of the sheet, welded at the bottom, truly ubiquitous. You find this item all around the world. There's not a country that has not been touched by the, yeah, it's not going away. Yeah, it's not going away. So let's talk about that a little bit.

We'll get into that. When do you guys think the modern plastic bag, as we know it was invented? The early 70s. I would say 70s as well. Yeah, I would say that. Yeah, okay. Because before then, it would be like a basket. paper bag with no handles, you know, with the bread coming out.

Right, right. But it was in the mid-1960s that the modern plastic bag, as we know it, came to be. It was invented by a Swedish engineer named Sten Gustav Toulin, and he was a package designer. And this was his job designing packaging and package materials and things like that. And as far back as 1959, he had the idea for what became the plastic bag as we know it. And when the plastic bag, which was thinner but stronger, lighter, cheaper, came onto the market, it very, very quickly, within just a few years, 80% of the bag market had become plastic in Europe. In 1982, the two biggest American grocery store chains, which were the Kroger's chain and Safeway, they switched to plastic bags.

They love them because they're cheaper to make. They're cheaper to get to your store because they're lighter. They take up less space, just on and on and on. This was still in the honeymoon phase, right, before the real negative side of things started to become more apparent. By the late 1990s, there was a lot of pushback. We talked on a very early episode of the show about the garbage patch, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Giant swirling mass of trash, and a huge percentage of that is single-use plastic polyethylene bags. I learned from a video interview I saw with Stan Gustav Toulin's son that his father actually had a vision for the plastic bag that is just 180 degrees from where.

where we have ended up today. His vision was a more environmentally friendly product. His vision that we should have one. Yes, he was dismayed at the deforestation associated with producing so many paper bags that were almost by design disposable, right? You know, I mean, you get it wet, it tears, whatever, you're not using that again. And he's like, there's got to be a better way. I work for this packaging company. I've got all these resources. What if I could come up with something that would halt or at least slow down the massive amount of trees being turned into paper bags? And his son says that from the very, very, very beginning, Toulin's idea was for a reusable item. His thinking was, I've got this awesome, super durable, lightweight, plastic bag.

you can literally carry it in your pocket when you go shopping. Apparently, Mr. Toulin himself did, in fact, even in the 1970s, you know, carry around his own invention with him everywhere he went for shopping. And, you know, frankly, a little dismayed to see it turn into a single-use item. You know, the plastic bag, it was a victim of its own success in some ways. They became so cheap to produce that the supermarkets are giving them away. and consumers, even though a lot of us were taking them home and, you know, stockpiling them in this massive drawer at home, we weren't really doing much with them. We would do, you know, crafts or products or things like that. This is like a, like a Mr. Guillotine situation.

Yeah, it is. You know, when he like invented this thing to be humane and to be good and then it was like bad stuff associated with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He would think it's absolutely silly to throw these away or to even just use them one time. I have read, and I'm quoting some data here from the United Nations Environmental Program here, that as many as one trillion plastic bags are produced each year worldwide. I read that as many as one million plastic bags are used each minute. I mean, it's such a beast.

So you started to see in the early 2000s bands, and I learned a lot about my own. home state of California, very interesting laws in loopholes. California became the first state to ban plastic bags, all right? You still saw stores selling plastic bags after that, you know, and it's kind of like, what's going on, right? It's like, and the stores, you know, they would charge you for them and they were definitely like, oh, you know, you can reuse this bag. That was their way of getting around the law. This was a giant loophole that the supermarkets and the vendors who still wanted to make plastic bags, if we can build these as reusable bags

and charge for them, then we are not running a foul of the original law, the letter of the law, because you are buying a bag. It's your choice to buy. The state of California finally got it together. Starting in January 1st of next year, they closed this loophole, yeah. This has been kind of a roller coaster, right?

I mean, the reusable bags, we've got the Trader Joe's, tote bag is just the hot item everywhere. Yes. Now you have too many tote bags. How many lost tow bags do you have? Too many. So here's the thing, Karen. Like there are some kind of want-womp moments associated with tote bags and reusable bags

on their own. A big one, as Chris, I think you may have talked about on a previous episode, is cross-contamination. I believe so, yeah. They'll take the raw meat home in the reusable bag and take the raw meat out, put it in their frigator. Beef gets, like, wrapped in, like, saran wrap that doesn't even go all the way around the ground beef, and I'll put it into my reusable shopping bag, and then I'll put the celery in there, and then I eat the celery and die, yeah.

Yep, yep. And then you just put it right back in your glove box in your car, you know. And you put it in your hot car, yeah, really let it get up to temp, you know? Some people have pointed out that almost every store now will sell you their own reusable bag, you know, often made out of, like, recycled soda bottles, or, you know, it's got another kind earth-friendly angle to it. And some people are worried that as those become cheaper and cheaper and cheaper, that those are on the verge of becoming almost single-use items as well. You know, people point out that cotton bags, paper bags, these things also use a lot of resources to produce. That's right.

A lot of water, a lot of water to water the trees to make the, and the cotton plants. That's right. And energy to transport them because they are heavier and, you know, more fragile and a lot ways. I've read some estimates that says a paper bag needs to be reused anywhere from three to seven times to be less harmful sort of overall than a plastic bag and that a cotton bag would need to be used anywhere from 100 to 300 times to be overall less harmful in the very kind of broad definition. As bad as they are on the back end, and they are, plastic bags, they're still so cheap and easy to make that there's so much resistance to moving away from them that, you know, we're going to be fighting this beast for a while. The Trader Joe's tow bags are really popular

in Japan. Oh my God. When we were just in Taiwan, Jennifer, we have this giant list of stuff from the U.S. we're supposed to bring for all of Betty's cousins and nieces and nephews. And like, we we traveled back with like 10 Trader Joe's tote bags. It's ridiculous. I recently learned that people look for L.L. Bean tote bags. Yes. Like vintage LLBin, anything, I think, but like vintage LLBin tote bags. Yep.

Yep. Okay. I have a quick quiz. Not shopping at the market, but make money on the stock market. So here, I've had a similar quiz before. but things have changed some information has updated so I'm going to do this quiz anyways

here I have compiled from the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ companies with one letter stock symbol so their ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange NASDAQ is one single letter. What I'm going to give you

is the letter and the year that they adopted this one letter which means the year they went public but sometimes you know situations are different i'll give you the year when this company went by this letter as their stock symbol and you buzz in with your buzzer what company it is all right right quick lightning round quiz here we go the letter is c 1986 it is in the realm of banking and finance okay chris city bank it is the city group

Yes, not Chase. Yeah, City Group. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, Chase, right. I didn't think about that. Okay, next letter, V, 2008. Previously, it was Vivendi, had V, but... Okay.

V 2008, also in finance. Oh, Jennifer. That was not me. My buzzer is serving me an ad right now. Sorry. You take those wrists. You got to buy the premium buzzer. All right, Chris.

Visa. Visa. All right. Next letter, F, 1956. Colin. Is that Ford? It is Ford. Good one.

Ford Motor Corporation. Joe, I just put Ford in my notes. Here we are. This is probably our oldest in the list. This is T-1930. Colin? I believe that is AT&T. Yes, it is AT&T.

T for telephone. I mean, AT&T itself went through a lot of company name change. It was like AT&T Corporation. Now it's just AT&T, but I'm just kind of counting it all as one. Next letter, H, 2009. It went IPO. Oh, Hilton?

It is Hyatt. Oh, so close. The other one. Okay. lost half your coins. The next letter is M 2007. This company used to go by FD as their symbol, but they changed in 2007 to M. McDonald's?

Incorrect. I was like FD, maybe it was like food. M, M. It is in retail? Mm-hmm. Oh, Jennifer, Guzon. Zoom tight. Is it Macy's?

It is Macy. Previously federated department stores? Yes. Previously federated department store. So it was FD before. That was a hard one. Good job. All right.

Next one. You. This is very current 2020. So it was pandemic lockdown year. Previously, you was used by U.S. Airways. Colin. Is that Uber?

No. You're close. It's tech. 2020. I'm making eyes. Pandemic. It is. is Unity.

Oh. Oh, that's right. I should know that. Game engine for a lot of games out there. All right. Nearing the end here almost. This is W. 2014.

I would say retail. W. 2014 retail. Okay. And I would say... Internet retail. Okay. It's not Walden books.

RIP. internet retail slash home 2014 oh Colin is it wayfair it's wayfair wayfair I know that long wow yeah yeah yeah all right and we have one last one here Z Z appropriate appropriate to end on that okay oh um Chris I got it yeah yeah It is Zillow. Our favorite hobby is to go on Zillow. Go on Zillow and check out what you can't buy. Probably be handy in trivia.

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I guess, uh, well, Jennifer was nice of you to stop by. Well, I mean, wait, I guess, I mean, Jennifer, you don't like have a quiz in your back pocket or something, do you? I do. Because I didn't just bring a cassero. I brought a quiz as well. Oh, it was actually, it was actually under the cassero. It was under the cassero. I'm so glad you ate the cassero. So you've now found the quiz. So I really like a certain daily newspapers game section. I particularly like a game where you have to pick out four things that are united by a theme. Oh, yeah, okay. I've heard of this. Why do you have to?

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. The name. Oh, okay. We're not going to get sued. I love the New York Times connections. I love it dearly.

I play it every day. I have prepared a quiz that is connections like. In each question, there are five items. One of them is an imposter. you've got to figure out the imposter and figure out the theme i tried really hard to create questions that felt equitable but they are tinted by my own bias and things that i enjoy welcome to the show there's no history um there's no greek mythology but i also tried to be fair so in fairness to colin i did not include any broadway questions and in fairness to Karen and Chris, the sports question is not really about sports. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. All right. Okay. So this is going to be a buzz in quiz. I'm going to read you five terms per question. Tell me which one the impostor is and what the theme is. All right. All right.

Let's go. Question number one. Paris, Las Vegas, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm Mm-hmm Chris Las Vegas does not have

Disneyland? Yes! Wow! One point to Chris. Okay, next question. Maybe think about something from Pop Quiz Hot-Shops. No hints.

Okay. Somebody, oh, she's mad now. Okay. Dallas. Washington, D.C., Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago. Oh, Dallas, D.C., Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago. Boston. Karen.

Boston is the imposter because all the other cities have football teams, but there's no Boston football team because it's the New England Patriots. technically the Patriots play in Boston So Boston does have a football team But it's not in the name Okay Okay Dallas

Dallas Washington D. Boston, Los Angeles Chicago Okay All right, let me see here Are they the outlier Because they haven't won a Stanley Cup

No Chris Washington, D.C. Uh-huh. Is not in a state. Tell me I'm wrong. D.C. has the Mystics. Los Angeles has the sparks.

Oh, WMBA. Boston is the only city that has four out of the five major sports franchise. Boston doesn't have a WMBA team. Got it. They've only got four. The others have five. got it got it got it okay next question kangaroo eagle condor lion spiny lobster spiny lobster that's a weird one to be in there it is yeah is it like animals animals on a flag

um i like how this has become of a work together yeah right right exactly It is. Kangaroo Eagle, Condor, Lion, Spiny Lobster. We don't eat these animals. I mean, I guess that's true. I take that back. I take that back. That's right.

Try. Kangaroo and the kangaroo is not on the endangered list? The kangaroo is correct, but it is not because it is not on the endangered list. The kangaroo is not on a national flag. Wow. Yeah, you were on to it. You were onto it. You abandoned it.

Who has the Spiny Lobster? We all demand in unison. It's Turks and Caicos. And who has the condor on their flag? Ecuador. Oh. Eagle is, well, Mexico. Mexico comes to mind, right?

Well, there's also Albania has the two-headed eagle. A lot of people have eagles. Sri Lanka has the line. Yeah, okay. Spiny lobster. That's a good one. Okay. Okay.

Band-Aid, Popsicle, Ragu, Jello, Kleenex, horse. I'm going to say Ragu is the standout because it's the one that has not become a genericized trademark. Yes, it's actually the opposite. Ragu is like the generic name. R-A-G-O-T existed before R-A-G-U. Yeah. Right. Right.

Okay. Moka Moose Tangerine Tango Oh sorry I forgot what game we're playing I thought it's like oh just buzz in when you know the theme But okay okay sorry Moka Moose

Tangerine Tango Rose Quartz Moody Smoke greenery Well I think these are Pantone Color of the Year I like it And one of them doesn't belong

So I know for sure Moka Moose was the most recent one There have been so many freaking oranges. Yeah. Rose quartz is very millennial. What sounds like a pantone color, greenery or moody smoke? I'm going to, I'll say greenery. You are wrong.

Okay. Correct on the theme. I'm going to go moody smoke, is my guess. You are correct. They had one color just called illuminating. What color was it? A bright yellow. Next question.

these are ordinal numbers 26th 19th 15th 24th and first can you read them all again yep 26th 19th 15th 24th first symphonies popes presidents I actually I bet it's is it amendments to the United States constitution. Ah, there you go. Okay, there you go. All right. So what's the outlier? So the 19th Amendment was prohibition and it was repealed?

Is it the First Amendment and the other amendments have had some part of them repealed or taken back at some point? You're right on the first, but that's not the reason. That's not the reason. And the 19th is not prohibition. No. 19th was women's suffrage?

Yes. Do they all, do they all deal with like voting rights except for the first amendment? Yes. The 26th Amendment is the right to vote at age 18. 15th is the right to vote not being denied by your race. 19th is the women's right to vote. 24th is the abolition of poll taxes. Ah, that's a good obscure one, yeah.

Okay, I'm going to say this one, Karen may have an advantage, but maybe not. We'll see. It's hard for me. This is harder than I thought. Jimmy Fallon, Steve Martin, Neil Patrick Harris, Hugh Jackman, Jerry Lewis. Jimmy Fallon, Steve Martin, Neil Patrick Harris, Hugh Jackman. Jackman, Jerry Lewis. I don't think

Jimmy Fallon ever hosted the Academy Awards. Exactly right. Nice, nice. You get all the coins. Yeah. I thought I was going to be like, didn't win a Tony. I was thinking that too, Karen. I was going to say like, didn't win a Tony.

That's so funny. Oh, keep that in mind. Okay, 2005, 1979, 2017, 1983, 1983, 977. 2005, 1979, 2017, 1883 1977 Well, they're all odd years

Right Not So it can't be Olympics Yeah or I would say the lynchpin year is 1977 Okay well obviously that's the year Star Wars came out as we all know

It's not related to the Olympics Chicken A Star Wars movie was not released in the year in 1979. You are correct, sir. Ah. I just didn't, I couldn't see the forest for your eyes.

77, the soul is, 83, yeah, Jedi, yeah. 2005 was the the, whatever, Revenge of the Sith, yeah. 2017, I figured something came out because they were released, it was it so low,

the early, all kinds of stuff. Last Jedi. Yeah, good. Nothing gets seven to nine because Empire Strikes Back was 80. Yeah. Well, that's what I get for being glib is I ignore my own hint. Go with your instincts.

Okay, here we go. Jeremy Irons, Maggie Smith, Cindy Lopper, Quincy Jones, and Adele. One more time. Jeremy Irons, Maggie Smith, Cindy Lopper, Quincy Jones, and Adele. Oh, oh, is it not Adele because she does not have an egot? You are incorrect on Adele.

She has an egot? I didn't say that. Quincy Jones, because he has an egot. Correct. Quincy Jones is the only person on this list with the egot. Second to the last one. The Age of Innocence, the Good Earth, Gone with the Wind, the color purple, the Great Gatsby.

Chris Great Gatsby was written by a man Ah I don't know I don't know about the good earth But gone with the wind For all as fuck is a woman Yeah

Is good earth written by a woman? Yes So the Great Gatsby Written by Dude You are correct Like a great Gatsby is the outlier And that's actually a great theme But that wasn't my intent

My intent Was that the Great Gatsby is the only one On this list that doesn't have a Pulitzer Oh All right Can be clear, Slumdog, I just watched the movie for the first guy in life of a couple weeks ago, Age of Innocence. Oh. That's why it's like super fresh in my mind.

Yeah. With Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder and Daniel Day Lewis. Yeah. It's that era in the 90s where they made a lot of period movies. Yeah. Right. Right, right. Yeah.

Just horrible accents, just top, top the bottom. Okay. Last one. Hoof. Okay. This one might be. Hard. What?

The evolve in so hard. Compared to the others. Okay. France. Austria. Sweden. Switzerland. Iceland.

I told you I'm not really into geography or history, so this is not a geography or history category. Okay. France. France? Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Iceland. Chris. Iceland, the rest of the countries do not have Bjork. Well, Iceland, because the other countries are not islands.

Iceland is correct. Iceland is the correct answer, but that's not one. Oh, okay, that rules out my guess. Hmm, okay, Iceland is correct. An annual event. Oh, do they, does Iceland not participate in Eurovision? They do. They just have never, ever, ever won it.

Oh, wow. Yes, it's Eurovision Song Contest winners. Incredible guess. Chris, you are incredible. Wow. That was it? That was a good, hard quiz. I think if it were better written, it would be only one possibility.

Yeah, that's the hard part of making connections. It's like it can't go another way. Wow. Well, thank you, Jennifer, for that quiz hidden in the casserole. It's all very soggy now. I want my Tupperware back. Well, we're going to put that in the dishwasher right now. And that is our show.

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