Good Job, Brain! - 34: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #7

Episode Date: October 22, 2012

Get out your sandpaper because this one's for the quiz buffs! So many individual quiz segments. Karen rounded up her favorite film scores for a special Music Round, Chris grills us on burgers, Colin's got travel on the mind, and Dana describes dancing diddies. ALSO: the best punctuation mark, license plates, brain anagram puzzles, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, musical, muscular and or mustache, muchachos, mudskippers, and muffins. This is good job, brain, your weekly quiz show and off-be trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 34, and of course, I'm your humble. host, Karen, and we are your orating orchestra of original organisms orbiting ordelons. Mmm. Oh. Yummy.

I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm muffin. I mean, Chris. So I want to ask you guys, I learned something pretty interesting over the week. Do you guys know what an interrobang is? Yes. Well, how does everybody know this?

I don't know what it is. Because I'm like a grammar and editing nerd. Yeah, exactly. Oh. Is it an exclamation mark? It's an exclamation mark combined with a question. There is an actual symbol that is the merging of an exclamation point with a question mark. Right.

In an old school font setting, you didn't actually call it an exclamation mark. They would call it a bang. Right. Interrogation. Yeah. Imagine what they would look like when you put them on top of each other. So you can like do it on typewriter, like back up one space and type it again. Didn't really catch on. No.

No. No, now they just put them next to each other. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like that's the symbol of my life. Like, what? It is. That's Karen's symbol.

It's an interrogation. Right, Tombstone. Now the official punctuation mark of, good job, right? I thought it was like, sexy spies do it. It's called Damada Hari. In our last episode, we had a listener challenge. Remember that? About our crazy weekend.

And what I did was describe our adventures. Which were not true. Not true. It didn't actually happen. Turns out all of the strange things that happened to us are movie plots from movies that, actually have numbers in their titles. So I ask you guys, the listeners, how would you sum up our adventure? And a lot of people wrote in and got it right.

And here I'm going to read an email from listener Joe Feheron, who sent in the answer. And he says, wow, you guys sound like you had a rough trip. It must have been hard to travel to the wedding with all of Dana's 27 dresses. I bring all of them. And that derailed train with the alien? how freaky, I hope you caught it on digital video and not some old super eight camera. I guess it was a good thing that Chris did so well in the rat battle on that eight-mile road. Just when you thought your luck was turning around, out-pop the London undead.

Your patient hiding in the underground ended with the zombies leaving only 28 days later. But then somehow you ended up searching for a seven samurai to defend that village. And to top it all off, you guys almost were kicked out of the casino and vague. Vegas. Luckily, you're all over the age of 21. I guess if I had to sum it all up, I'd say your trip was full of challenges, but once again, you proved that though you had 99 problems, trivia ain't one. So the answer was 99. Good job, everybody who wrote it. So spirited. So into the story. Actually, when I solved this puzzle, I emailed you the IMDB link for the movie 99. And some people did too. And we're all very impressed. Good job, Chris and

everyone else. And we contacted the winners. I'm not eligible for the price. No, you were not. So here we go. We're doing an all quiz today. So this is our all quiz number seven. segment to stump each other, but we're going to first start off with our usual general trivia segment, which is Pop Quiz Hot Shot. Here I have my random Trivial Pursuit card. A lot of these questions are about alcohol. Hmm. Oh, well, let's...

So we should do real well. Really well. I see no problem with that. Blue Wedge Geography. What Japanese City is home to a world famous snow festival and shares its name with a popular beer? Oh, that was Colin first. I believe it's Sapporo.

Yes, Sapporo. Pop culture pink wedge. What infomercial star promoted the Mighty Puddy, OxyClean, and Orange Glow? That was Colin again. Is it the late great Billy Mays? Billy Mays. Yellow Wedge. When were the first Oscars awarded?

And it's multiple choice. 1918, 1929, or 1936. Dana. Is it 1928? Yes, correct, 1929. Always go with the middle answer. For real. Purple Wedge.

Who visualized a dream caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate a second before awakening in 1944? I'm not really sure what this is asking. Is it the name of a painting? Yeah. Is that a title? Dream caused by a flight of a bee around a pomegranate a second before awakening, calling. I think that's a dolly. Correct.

Salvador dolly. All right. Green Wedge for Science. What do solar flares cause in the northern hemisphere? Chris. The Aurora Borealis? Yes. Last question.

Orange Wedge. What ingredient gives Sambuca, Uzo, and Pestis their distinctive flavor? Is it anise or black licorice? It is anis, yes. Sambucah, Uzo, and Pestis are all. alcohol that is flavored with anise and tastes like licorice. Those are the ones that always come late in the drinking evening

for me. You don't really start off with the Ouzzo. Hey guys, do some pre-gaming for the concert. Got the Samboca! Yeah, as the night where it's on, it becomes a better and better idea. What's left? This is going to be the best new kids on the

block reunion tour ever. All right, all quiz. Who wants to go first? All right, so I don't know about you guys, but one of my favorite ways of traveling is road trip I love, no more, no more, no more. Hit the road jack and don't you come back no more.

What you say? Hit the road jack. And don't you come back no more, no more, no more. I love getting out in the car and driving around. And as a kid, it was always, you know, a big deal for us would be and my sister to see who could spot the most out-of-state license plates. And I still play this game, even when I'm out on road trips.

Well, yeah. So there are many variations. We would play sometimes, you know, the punching. You can also do it if you have like your sweetheart. You can trade them for kisses. You know, there's lots of ways you can spin it. You can go, the whole gamut from affection to violence with this game. So as a kid and again, even now, one of the things I loved was not just seeing the out-of-state plates,

but is the slogans and the state mottoes on the out-of-state plates, which, you know, range from the sublime to the ridiculous. So I have prepared a quiz for you guys, which will reward your, uh, eagle-eyedness. And it is license plate slogans from around this great country of ours. So this could be from any of the states. I think you guys will do better than you might think, Karen. Okay.

All right. The silver state. Dana. Oh, is it Nevada? It is Nevada. Oh. That's right. That's right.

I thought I was like, because California is the golden state. I was like, okay, what's number two? I don't think they would look at it that way. Okay. Right. Yeah. And a lot of these are based on what's big in tourism or what's big in natural resources or some historical event. And, yeah, Nevada is a lot of silver mines.

So the silver state. Okay. Land of Lincoln. Illinois. It is Illinois. Land of Lincoln. Is he from Illinois? Is that wild?

Yes, yes, indeed. He built a log cabin with his own bare hands that he was born in. They claim him. Yes. Strong fetus. He was amazing. The Evergreen State. Dana.

Is it Washington? It is Washington. Washington State, that's right. Great faces, great places. Now, if you think about this one, Karen. South Dakota only because Mount Rushmore is there? Absolutely right. Absolutely right.

Yeah, and the background image is, in fact, Mount Rushmore. So that's great. That's great. Good one. This is probably the most dramatic one. Live free or die. Nice. Chris.

New Hampshire. It is New Hampshire, yeah. And I always like to put this one in contrast. So after Live Free or Die, famous potatoes. I think it was a tie, Dana. Idaho, in fact, yes. So that's the range.

And, of course, George Carlin noted this in a famous routine of his. I wonder if Bruce Willis should get a New Hampshire license plate. And he just handwrites in hard for each one. Yeah. Taxation without representation. Dana. Washington, D.C. It is Washington, D.C.

That is their not-so-settled protest. That is by far the most passive-aggressive-aggressive license plate slogan. The most passive-aggressive license plate slogan since, hey, the big white thing is the dishwasher, Rhode Island. Birthplace of aviation Karen Is it Ohio? It is Ohio Because the Wright brothers are from there

Yes, the Wright brothers are from there Now however, another state has on their license plates First in Flight Which is It is North Carolina Which is where Kitty Hawk was This even spilled over onto their quarter designs You know, remember they had those custom state quarters.

Yeah, one of them claims first in flight because the flight was actually there. But Ohio claims them because all their labs and all of, they were based in Ohio. Oh. All right. Well, you guys did pretty well. Yeah. Good job. I thought was going to bomb that one.

Well, speaking of road trips, I have a quiz called Whose Burger Is It Anyway? In which we will run over various fast food restaurants. And I will tell you a certain type of hamburger that is, that is, that is, that is, served in this restaurant. A signature burger, if you will have to tell me the restaurant that it is served at. This was inspired, by the way, by a bizarre headline. I don't know if you recently saw that a gallon jug of McJordan sauce was recently put up on eBay. So back in the early 90s, McDonald's introduced the McJordan burger, which was, it had

like bacon and barbecue sauce on it, basically, but it was to capitalize in the national fame of Chicago Bulls basketball star. Michael Jordan. And a McDonald's franchisee apparently saved a gallon jug of the barbecue sauce, which was labeled McJordan Barbecue Sauce, and saved it long these many years, decided to sell it on eBay as a crossover collectible, both to McDonald's collectors and to Michael Jordan collectors. He got a bid of just under $10,000.

Wow. But we don't know if he actually got the money from that or not yet. I'm not really sure if the money changed hands, but yeah. I know it sounds ridiculous, but that is. super rare. Apparently, he had had it for so for a while. This was not his first attempt to sell it. So demand may not be as high as you think.

I don't know. I think he imagined that it would be worth a bunch of money, but yeah, exactly. It's like, even if you are a big basketball collector. But anyway, the McJordan was a burger that McDonald's served. So let's move on to some more burgers. And we'll see how you guys do. These are past and present. If you hear a blank in the name of the sandwich, that is because whatever was there would identify it too much.

Got it. The Arch Deluxe Uh Karen It was all the same time It doesn't feel that special That was McDonald's And the Arch Deluxe was

It had ranch in it Right It didn't have ranch on it It was fancy for grownups It had a mayo mustard sauce Not a fancier Yeah because I remember they were advertising it It's like oh it's not for kids

It's for adults Exactly it was a failure It didn't have to make an upscale seeming burger But as it turns out adults just wanted regular McDonald's burgers. It was a solution in search of a problem, as we like to say. The Baconator. Dana.

Is that jacking the box? It's not jacking the box. Colin? I think it was Wendy's. It is. Wendy's has the Baconator. What is the Baconator? Two patties and like four strips of bacon.

It's a bunch, yeah. They're very specific about the number of strips of bacon, lest you feel you were short change. Double burger with a whole lot of bacon. The Big and Tasty The Big and Tasty Colin? I think that was also McDonald's.

It was also McDonald's, but what was it? Oh, gosh. What is it? It's still served in places. Big and tasty. Yeah. I'm going to have to pass. I'm going to dry on blank here.

Anybody know? The Big and Tasty is McDonald's answer to the Whopper. It is a burger with a larger diameter, basically. A Whopper size. Oh, that is what the Wopper, what makes the Wopper special? It's a bigger patty? Yes. It's a patty of larger diameter and bun of larger diameter, yeah.

How about the $6 burger? So many. Colin? That's Carl's Jr. Yes, it is Carl's Jr. What is the Hardy's equivalent of the $6 burger? Oh. That's right, because it's regional.

The $6 burger. Hardee's calls their burgers the thick burgers and monster thick burgers. All the same products and some slightly different names. How about the junior bacon cheeseburger? Karen? Burger King? It's not Burger King. Uh, Colin?

I think it's Wendy's. Wendy's has the junior bacon cheese burger. Wendy's was actually the first of the fast food chains to introduce the 99 cent value menu. Huh. Yeah, that was an innovation that everybody ended up taking from Wendy's. Yeah, that has become the business model now. It certainly has, yes. Yeah, that was a struck of genius.

The rodee. cheeseburger rodeo cheeseburger. Rodeo Cheeseburger. Yes. Not rodeo cheeseburger. It's not a fancy cheeseburger served.

How about Colin? I'll guess Carl's Jr. It's actually Burger King. And the rodeo cheeseburger has onion rings and barbecue sauce on. Oh, yeah. The blank DLT. Colin. That was the Mick DLT.

Yes. What was so interesting about the McDLT? That was the one I think that had the special container that kept the hot side hot and the cool side cool. Absolutely. And so they would put the meat and the bun and the cheese on one side and the lettuce and the tomato or in the other side. Because apparently people were just complaining left and right about wilted vegetables

on their burger. But I remember just thinking like at the time, like, wait, so the gimmick of the burger is the package, not the burger itself. Wait, so you have to construct it yourself then? Yeah. You just take the top and the bun part off the one side and put it on the other. Right. But it keeps the lettuce and the tomatoes away from the paddy until you're

ready to combine the two of them. It's like for people who have OCD. Also, it had a double-sized styrofoam container. Yeah, and I remember that killed them when they... It did. It actually was one of the reasons because it was just coming up at the time and people were complaining that McDonald's used too much styrofoam, and this had a huge styrofoam container.

So they got rid of it. Colin, what was the Big 33? Ooh, the Big 33. I'm going to guess it was like they had to go above the quarter pound, so I don't know. I think of the number 33 in sports. Oh, okay. So it was something in Boston? Yeah, you're getting there.

Larry Bird-based? It came out simultaneously at McDonald's with the McJordan. It was the Larry Bird named burger that they had during that motion. I think it's the exact same burger, actually. They just called it different things in different territories. It should have been made with chicken. That's cute. I think it was different.

I believe that the whole thing with the Jordan one was. Like, that was, like, his favorite recipe. Oh, okay. So I wouldn't be surprised if the, the bird one maybe was... Historical documents are sketchy. Animal style. In and out. Yes.

It's from In-N-Out's not-so-secret menu. Yes. It's not printed at the restaurants, but it is online. Finally, the Hula Burger. I know what's on it. I know. Yeah. Who had the Hula burger?

This is old. Karen. I'm going to say McDonald's. It is McDonald's. Do you know what it is? It was actually just the pineapple. There was no meat in it, right? Yep, you're right.

Because it was for a vegetarian. So the Hula Burger was actually, it was this idea of there were a lot of Catholics who did not eat beef on Fridays. And so Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's, thought we have to do something for them. So it was the Hula Burger and it was a slice of pineapple with cheese melted onto it, replacing the meat, which proved not popular. But the fillet of fish, which was come up with, I believe, by a franchisee, not McDonald's corporate, turned out to be the Catholics who couldn't eat meat on Fridays. That's really interesting. I would actually try that. That sounds good, the pineapple and cheese.

Put some barbecue sauce on it. Sounds pretty gross to me. Really? A little weird there. But that's like a lot of pizza. McDonald's cheese melted over. Yeah, okay. All right, we'll try it later.

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wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, my turn, and I've set this on the podcast before, and you guys know this about me, is I'm a big fan of movie soundtracks, but that also includes movie scores. So we've done a lot of music quizzes where we had what you call Chris the needle drop, right? having like a famous song for a famous scene, but we haven't done one with movie scores yet.

So here I have a list of some of my favorite iconic movie scores. I like that. And the thing is, I did not include anything from John Williams. So that's out of them. I feel like that is too easy. Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Star Wars. Oh, wow. Jaws.

Yeah. Those are way too iconic. But these, I'm sure when you hear it, you'll be like, oh, I totally hope. So we're buzzing in with the movie. Yes, please provide me the movie title of these movie scores. And here we go. This is the first one. to feel like I was going to know it and then it ended

and I was like, oh, Colin. Was that Dark Night? Correct, it was Dark Night. Yeah, it was like, it was right on the tip of Yeah, it was like, it just kind of flashed right at the very end. I'm like, oh, I could just picture him riding down the... Those two notes, very, very iconic. Good job.

All right, here we go, the next one. Does it sound like to be it. It does sound familiar? It does sound really familiar. Is it the Lion King? Correct. It is the Lion King? Lion King, a good mix of Hans Zimmer, very famous composer for a lot of music stuff, who also did The Dark Night.

For Lion King, he teamed up with Lebo N, who was an African composer. So they would have these hybrids of very beautiful orchestral pieces mixed in with kind of the African chanting and the tribal sound. And that was when Simba became the rightful king. Here's number three. Oh! Chris. Pirates of the Caribbean. Yes.

I would say specify which movie, but this theme is used in all four. Can you name me all four full titles of the Pirates movies? Okay. We can work together. So Pirates of the Caribbean, the Curse of the Black Pearl. Correct. First one. There was at World's End.

At World's End. There's On Stranger Tides and then there's... It was just the first one, right? No, no. I mean, Curse of the Black Pearl, I think it was the following with the first one. Oh, that's right. Oh, dead man's chest. Correct.

Okay. Okay. Very good. All right. Here we go. Another one. You guys are all smiling. Is it The Sting?

Yes. Marvin Hamlish is the entertainer. Yes, very famous. The Sting starring. Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Yep. Best picture, 1973. Whoa.

Bonus points. Geez. Next one. A little bit of clarification for this one. This is technically not in the score of the movie. This was probably kind of like a needle drop where it was a song that was used in specific scenes. Hmm. Famous dancing tango scene.

Dirty Dancing. Incorrect. It was used in scent of a woman. Oh. And the other movie is True Lies with Jamie Lee Curtis and Arnold Schwarzenegger dancing at the end. I wasn't allowed to watch that movie when it came out. And the last one. Colin.

Oh, was that the Daph Punk from the Tron movie? Yes, it was Tron Legacy. Yeah, it was. And the whole score of the Tron Legacy movie was all done by Daft Punk. This one is an example of the techno ones, and not all of them are techno-sounding. There are a lot of beautiful orchestral, like, violin. string pieces that daft punk also composed so very cool the whole movie nice nice so of course i did not have john williams on the list because i figured that was pretty easy well he covers half

of all movies ever made a lot john williams just so iconic and so i actually looked up the top five movie scores from the american film institute a f i's top list okay can you guys guess not necessarily in order what the top five movie scores are and keep in mind, this is like out of a hundred years. Right, right. I'm going to guess Star Wars is on it. I figure Star Wars is up there. Star Wars is number one.

Okay, all right. Is Jaws? Is the, oh, Jaws? No. Really? Is the Godfather on there? Yes, Godfather is number five. Okay, yeah. Close Encounters the third kind? Nope. Is Indiana Jones on there? Nope. Well, it's not in top five.

It's not a top five. So Star Wars is number one. Jurassic Park? Mm-mm. They're all old. Oh, okay. Right, right, right. This is all time. Cross the blank there. No, number two.

Sweeping Epic. Gone with the wind. Yeah, gone with the wind. It's funny how sweeping epic just means gone with the wind. Yeah, exactly. Number three is Lawrence of Arabia. Which I can't recall it, but when I went on to YouTube and listened to it, I was like, oh. It is.

It's fun. Yeah. And a lot of these themes are used in other movies, too. Yeah. And number four is Psycho. Ah. Oh, okay. And then number five is Godfather.

So there you go. Number one, Star Wars. If that question ever pops up, Star Wars, number one. That was a good one. I like that. That was a good quiz. That was my quiz. It is always like, oh, I know this from somewhere a moment.

Okay, well, those were all songs that don't have words. And now my quiz is about songs paying a special attention to the words. And so these are all songs that describe dance moves. And so I'll tell you the lyrics that are describing the dance. And then you have to tell me what dance they're describing. This is fantastic. I love this. Okay. Well, I hope it lives up to that. That excitement. All right. First one. It's just a jump to the left and then a step to the right. With your hands on your hips, you bring your knees in tight, but it's a pelvic thrust that really drives you insane. It is the Time Warp from Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Yes, okay. You got to swing your hips now. Come on, baby, jump up, jump back. What? The loco motion. Yes. Do you know who did it originally? Well, it was written by Carol King, but I don't know.

Really? Wait, see, who is it? Little Eva, there we go. Little Eva, original. But made famous by Kylie Minogue, right? Well, I mean, Little Eva made a famous. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Brought back.

Brought back. Yeah, brought back. First, I limped to the side like my leg was broken, shaking and twitching kind of like I was smoking. Oh. Do you like the reading? The hokey pokey. First, I limped to the side like my leg was broken. Shaken and twitching kind of like I was smoking.

is it the stanky leg no I don't know it's the Humpty Dance I never guess I never knew how to do the Humpty Dance I like my oatmeal lumpy I put my hand upon your hip When I dip you dip we dip

Karen It is da dip By freak nasty Yes Okay well I feel less bad I was like oh these are like Because of My favorite part of that song

is always that he's like When I dip, you dip, we dip I just want to be perfectly clear You understand how this works I do it first And you do it And then by definition We're doing it together

Wait stop Now when I'm dipping What are you doing? I'll draw you a diagram I'll draw you a picture And then we did Oh God It was so confusing

All right To the left To the left To the right to the front, to the front, to the back to the back. Now dip, baby, dip. Karen. Tootsie roll.

Can we see you do that Tootsie roll? Not really sure the full title is. I believe it's such a roll, yeah. By the 69 boys. 69 boys, yeah. Spelled with the Z. Yeah, heel, toe, docee, come on, baby, let's go. Oh.

Like, I know the words. I just can't. He'll pass. I can't retrieve it. It's the boot scooting boogie. Boots scooting. By Brooks and Dunn. Okay.

All right. Last one. Move your body if you got the notion, front to back, and a rock-like motion. Move your hips from side to side now. Don't you slip. Let your feet glide now. If you got the groove, you got to use it. Rock, rhythm, and time with the music.

You just might start a chain reaction. Oh, God, what is this? This is something really cheesy. Yeah. Is it? You guys all know this, Tom. Is it the Bartman? This is the Bartman.

Yes, yes. Oh my God, I had that tape. From The Simpsons, of course. From the Simpsons, yes. The Bartman. I need to listen to that again. That was awesome when I was a kid. Do the Bartman.

Very good. Burkle had a dance, too. There was an episode of Family Matters. Pull your hands up to your armpits. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes. All right, well, we've got the Bartman there named after Bart Simpson. I will very, very clumsily transition into. other things that are named after people.

Let me right there on my segue. I'm going to continue in the vein of sort of traveling the world that I started with the road trip earlier. I'm going to give you guys the names of countries that are named after people. Okay. And now this group is actually a little bit smaller

than you might think. There are a lot of countries named after people, but not as many as I thought. So I will name the country, and you name the historical or possibly allegorical person. after whom the country is named. Oh, I can't even name one. I think you can.

All right. So, we'll start with a simple one here. Columbia. Chris. Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus. Oh. Yes.

I blanked. Probably the easiest one. All right. And I will warn you, there are a couple tricky ones on here. All right. Bolivia. I think I know what it is, but is it Simon. Is it Simon Bolivar?

It is. Simone Bolivar. That's right, who is a big figure in fighting for independence from Spain, yes. And technically Venezuela, actually, it's also the Bolivaran Republic of Venezuela. So he's actually in two countries. Oh, that is the full title. That's right, that's right. America.

I think Dana again. Amerigo Vespucci. Yes. Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian mapmaker, an explorer, and he was really the first one who posited the idea that South America was a whole separate continent. Just reading into this, he may not have even known that it ended up being named after him,

but his name started showing up around in the 1500s on maps. He was a cartographer. He was, among other things, a cartographer and explorer, yeah. And I guess Spain refused to call it America for 200 years. They felt that Christopher Columbus got slighted. But so, yes, Amerigo Vespucci. The Philippines. Karen.

King Philip of Spain? Yes. Now, which... I don't know which... God, three. Close. King Philip the second. Okay.

Yes, but yeah. There's always the nitpicky part. Yes, King Philip the second of Spain. All right. Now we're getting into the trickier portion of the quiz here. El Salvador. And think expansively here. El Salvador.

It helps if you know a little Spanish. Chris. Is it named after Jesus Christ? It is named after Jesus Christ. El Salvador, it means... The Savior. Yeah, and again, the original full-length name of the country was the province of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, which has just

been shortened to El Salvador, the Savior, the Savior, okay. Oh, wow. All right. Israel. It'd be ironic if it was also Jesus, right? It is not Jesus. It is not Jesus. This one, it helps if you know your biblical stories.

It is real, hold on. Oh, sorry. It was somebody who was renamed Israel. Chris Abraham Close Close You're in the right family

Yeah It was Jacob Oh okay So Jacob who you may remember the story He wrestled the angel Sorry He wrestled the angel And God

Should have figured that out Struggle with God I should have figured that from the Joseph and the technical If I just recited the libretto Again I would have got it Jacob All right

We'll close that one here The little tricky Ireland Ireland And it might help Aaron Gobrah and Erie. You're on the right track.

You're absolutely on the right track, Karen. Yes. But what was it mean? Yeah. We'll call it there. Erin or Erie or Eru was a Celtic goddess. Oh, okay. And so the island and then later the country name comes from Eru or Erin.

And I know I am absolutely butchering the proper pronunciation here for anyone listening. Also, is a goddess a person? Well, that's why I said at the top. They may be real historical. They may be allegorical. Gotcha. I warned you at the album. said. I thought you're going to do Rhodesia or something. No, I well, you know. Or Monrovia.

Rhodes, of course, named after Cecil Rhodes, but it's now Zimbabwe. Yeah. But that would have been on the list as well. Yeah, the Rhodes Scholar, who we talked about in an earlier episode as well. The diamonds. Yes, that's right. All right. Well, good job, guys. Those are countries, they're tricky. I didn't know any of them. So I actually, I'm glad you asked that. I had Georgia on this list originally named after, the one belief is named after St. George. You know, like George and the Dragon and the famous story of that. But apparently that's pretty disputed now. I was doing a little more research. There are some linguists who don't think it actually comes from St. George. So it was enough in dispute. I didn't put it on the list.

When Johann Rawl received the letter on Christmas Day 1776, he put it away to read later. Maybe he thought it was a season's greeting and wanted to save it for the fireside. But what it actually was was a warning, delivered to the Hessian colonel, letting him know that General George Washington was crossing the Delaware and would soon attack his forces. The next day, when Rawl lost the Battle of Trenton and died from two colonial Boxing Day musket balls, the letter was found, unopened in his vest pockets. As someone with 15,000 unread emails in his inbox, I feel like there's a lesson there. Oh well, this is the constant, a history of getting things wrong.

I'm Mark Chrysler. Every episode, we look at the bad ideas, mistakes, and accidents that misshaped our world. Find us at constantpodcast.com or wherever you get your podcasts. So here's something fun. I don't know how this is going to go over because it's more of a puzzle and it's completely untested. So let's see how you guys do. I'm calling this puzzle brainy words. Every word I'm looking for you guys to give me contains the letters B-R-A-I-N, in that order, but not necessarily contiguously.

Oh, okay? Man, that sounds like a lot of work coming up with this. So, for example, if I were to say surveillance, you might say observation. Ah, okay. Okay. I'm ready? Oh, man. Well, let's see. Let's see what happens. All right.

Brutal Brutal. The blanks invaded the city. Colin. Barbarian? Yes. Quiver. Quiver.

See, it's like the arrows? As in a shaking. Dana. Vibration. Yeah. Scrape. Scrape. Collin.

Abration. Yes. Wow. Biblioticary. Dana. Librarian. Yes. Partnership.

No, not collaboration. Two musicians might work together, and you would call it. Dana. Collaboration. Collaboration. A settlement of dispute. Dana, again. Arbitration.

Arbitration. Finally, something deviating from normality. Dana Aberation It took you long I got to jump in there You guys are good So let me try these on you actually

I thought of some they used before he started I was like oh like librarian But I didn't say it She was building up a stockpile When you think about it Yeah when you think about it in your mind You can kind of see words forming There are not very many

Anagrams of the word brain As I found what I was playing around with the word To see what I can do here But if you add letters to the word brain, you can get anagram. So if I add a G to the word brain, can you think of what word that might be? Bering. Bering? Bering.

Right out of the park. If I add a Y to the word brain, not brain. A word that is not brainy, way of counting things. Binary, there we go. And finally, adding an S to the word brain give us brains. But it might also give us the word that means children. Bairns. Bairns, there we go.

It's a Scrabble Word. Dana, you're so good. And those are the, wow, you're really good at anagrams. You have a brain for it. Yeah, you're like John Nash. Yeah, I know, it's crazy. But with anagrams. Well, anyway, that's my, that's my brainy words quiz.

Nice. Only I can make that a marketable skills. All right, great. And that's our show. Our all quiz number seven. Thank you guys for joining me. Thank you guys, listeners, for listening in, and hope you guys learn a lot about burgers and countries named after people and movies, scores, and also the Bartman. And you can find us on Zune Marketplace, on iTunes, on Stitcher, and also on our website, which is goodjobbrain.com.

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