Good Job, Brain! - 60: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #12

Episode Date: April 30, 2013

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You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, dashing and dear data devotees. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and off-beat trivia podcast. This is episode 60, and of course, I am your humble host, Karen, and we are your creative, crafty, cranial cronies who crave our crewmate Chris. Yeah. I'm Colin. I'm Dana.

And we crave our crewmate Chris. Chris is still in Japan. Hopefully, he'll be back soon with lots of Japanese facts. And presents for us. Yes, presents. He better bring something. We should email him, let him know. We should do that.

And I want to start the show with a listener question, Gemma from Texas. emailed us, and she asked us, what are some of our favorite fact-filled TV shows? Ooh. I think she's looking for some suggestions and some stuff to queue up. And I actually open it up to our community on Facebook and Twitter, and I have some responses from them. But I want to ask you guys first, Colin. Fact shows.

Well, I don't know if this counts, but I get a lot of just, like, huh, kind of insights from the show, how it's made. Do you guys ever watch that show? I love that show, which is, if you're in case you haven't seen it, it's just. They'll pick three or four things an episode, and it's just what the title says. They'll show you how the baseball gloves or pens or chainsaws or cottage cheese, whatever it is, and they'll show you step by step of the process. And I don't know, something about just the seeing the behind the scenes of what goes into household objects just has always fascinated me.

Or just like production process, that stuff amazes me that they have to design these machines to do different steps of producing a thing in a large amount. Yeah, like that's where... That's a thing where I learned when they make jelly beans. The molds are actually in flour. They're not like in little plastic molds. They make little indentations, and they come out of like a little compressed flower mold. So it's just really interesting to see how they do that. Unwrapped is really good for that, too.

The fact, they show how your favorite junk food basically gets made in the stores. I saw one about dumdums that was really interesting. They did different machines, and they talked about the mystery flavor. Which is a combination of the leftover flavors. When they're switching the flavors, it's the mixed. I also really like this show called Audities. It is fascinating. It takes place in an antique store in New York. Oh, right, right, right. Antiques and oddities.

Curios. Curios. It's full of fascinating things. They had the flesh eating bugs. They showed how, like, they do taxidermy stuff. Oh. They have also, like, artists come through. So there was this one woman who wanted to sell little sculpture she made out of belly button lint.

They were kind of grossed out about it. It's just full of really neat, weird little facts and things that people were into. Beds of nails. They sold, like, old carnival stuff. Whoa. Oh, Chris is not here, but I'm sure I can answer for him. I know Chris's favorite, probably fact-filled shows include Good Eats, which is my favorite, too. A lot of people's favorite.

Good Eats hosted by Alton Brown, and each episode is about one food item. And maybe sometimes not even food, maybe it's water. And just the science behind it, the history behind it. The history and the anecdotes, yeah. How you actually cook with it to bring out its basic characteristics. and highlight them. And I believe Chris's other favorite show is, how am I going to say this without cursing? Penn and Tellers, BS.

Oh, yeah. That's a great one, too. Oh, I bet Chris would like that show. Yeah. Exposing a lot of maybe conspiracy theory stuff. It's kind of like a politicized mythbusters. Yeah. Yeah, they had very pointed taked downs of common misconceptions or a lot of scientific shams they'll take on on that show.

Yeah. You said Mythbusters. I also love Mythbusters. Definitely. Of course. They film it around here. They do. And personally, for me, I love being a very big dog person.

I love dogs 101. It's on Animal Planet. In one episode, they probably feature three to four different types of dog breeds. And they talk about the history of it, you know, how it was introduced to the world and the physiology of that type of dog, you know, learning that the bloodhounds, why are they so good at tracing smells? And also, there's dogs, there's puppies. Like, what's not to like about that show? And my other favorite show, and I mentioned on this podcast before, which is Life After People on the History Channel, what happens when all of a sudden humans aren't on Earth, what happens

to everything that we have, we make, what happens to all these buildings, and they have different engineers and scientists kind of speculate what would happen. I think the underlying theme is plants will just take over everything. Yeah. Yeah. It will revert to plants. Yeah. So we also asked the community for their recommendations. And we've mentioned him before. He is our former trivia teammate, Rob Sable, from New York. Of course, his favorite fact-filled TV show was pop-up videos from VH-1. Rob actually worked on pop-up videos, and it's music videos, and they would pop-up little facts about the making of the video or different related facts. I want to call out John Quinn, who suggested the show bird notice. And burn notice is a, it's kind of comedy, it's an action televised series here in America,

and it's about a spy who got burnt. But in addition to the drama parts of the show, the show features tips, like spy tips. Like when you're a spy, you know, and you need a telephone in a hotel, the best way is to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's a little bit like elements of like MacGyver, a little bit of those like worst case scenario handbooks.

Yeah, it is. sort of, yeah. That's cool. Let's just check that out. Gail McMillan, along with others, brought up a show that I've actually, I've never heard before. It's a UK show called Pointless. And Pointless is also a quiz type show.

I'm in this kind of similar vein to QI, which is also a very, very popular quiz show. And, of course, a lot of childhood favorites. Oh, man, so many. Three, two, one contact. Yeah, that's great. Bill Nye, the Science Guy. Square one. Square one.

We've talked about Ripley's, believe it or not. Yeah, certainly. I love that one. There was another one I remember. I associate with the same time period as Ripley's was In Search of with Leonard Nimoy. Have you guys remember that one? And it was just each week, it was kind of, you know, like lost civilizations or unexplained phenomena. And it was kind of like with the spooky feel, but from a very scientific presentation.

I'd be curious to see how well those hold up. But I always liked that one a lot. Lots of TV shows to catch up on, I guess. Thank you, Jemma, for writing in. Without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia. segment. Popquoise hot shot. And here I have actually two trivia pursuit cards that I'm going to kind of scramble because one of them has a picture on it. It's a mashup. Yeah, I don't like those. What is this? It's a compass. Spoiler alert. Yes, it's a compass. Here we go. Blue Wedge

for geography and you guys have your barnyard buzzers. Oh, okay. What U.S. State has the highest ratio of males to females. Oh, U.S. state highest ratio of males to females. That's a good question. Oh, Alaska? Yes, it is Alaska. I think I have heard that, actually, now that you mention that. All right.

Pink Wed for Pop Culture. Who became an overnight sensation singing, I dreamed a dream on Britain's Got Talent. Dana. Susan Boyle. Correct. Susan Boyle. Shocked everybody. Beautiful voice. All right. Yellow Wedge. What is the call sign of the presidential helicopter? I mentioned this before. Yeah, that's Marine One. Yes, Marine One. So named because it is operated by the U.S. Marine Corps.

Yep. Purple Wedge. The Kitchen God's wife was Amy Tan's second novel. What was her first? Dana. Joy Luck Club. Yes, the Joy Luck Club. Green Wedge for Science. Name three, just three, of the six Nobel Prize categories. All right. So there's one in medicine. There's economics.

Ding, ding, ding, ding. And physics. Ding, ding, ding. Can you name the other three, Dana? Literature? Yes. Um, a piece? Yes.

The last one. That is the last one. Similar to physics, another branch of science. Chemistry? Yep, chemistry. So that's chemistry, economics, literature, medicine, peace, and physics. Oh, can I make a mnemonic? That's a good one, yeah.

Let's see. Tune in next week for a mnemonic. Klemp. Klempa. Klempa. All right. Anyways, moving on. Orange Wedge, last question.

Interesting. what is the Chicago Bulls cheerleading squad called? It's going to be some horrible pun. Oh, I feel like I should know this. The bullets. No, I don't know. What is it? The lovable.

Oh, that's so dumb. No. I like bullets. The lollettes. Bullerinas. Oh, that's good. I like that. Lovable.

Loveables. There you go. Good job, Brains. And today is our episode number 60, which is a multiple of five, every fifth episode, we have our all-quiz Bananza, where it's a whole episode full of quiz segments from us that we've prepared for each other and for you guys, where it's a whole episode full of quiz segments from us that we've prepared for each other and for you guys listeners. And who wants to go first? All right, well, I'll start it off for you guys here. Yeah, all right. I got a quiz called Household Name.

Our house In the middle of our streets Our house In the middle of our So this will be a little bit of a grab bag quiz About perhaps the origins that you may not know Of everyday household things You know, I'm big on the secret histories

And things like that Or maybe just some interesting facts About otherwise everyday objects Okay, I'm ready All right, this French company Can proudly claim not one But two of its iconic products are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, prestigious for a design object. Now, what's even more interesting is that both of these items were meant to be thrown away.

What is the company that I'm talking of? What? Dana. I'm guessing DuPontz? No. DuPont, I believe it is American, I think, even though they sound French. So, as I say, these are both meant to be thrown away. These are disposable items.

What company can you think of that makes disposable household objects? Where's a disposable householder? Karen. Glad? No, no. I was looking for BIC, the French company. They're French? They are French.

And they invented the BIC maxi lighter, which is just that ubiquitous, you know, oval design, household cigarette lighter. And also the crystal pen, which is just that classic hexagon. single see-through pen with the bluer back cap. And razors. And razors as well. The razor hasn't made it into the permanent collection of MoMA yet. Wow. Yeah. So I think that's just such a testament to their just amazing designs that the disposable products are just so cleanly and so well designed. Yeah. Bick really was kind of their claim to fame originally was really mass marketing the first disposable ballpoint pen. Oh. I take it for granted. Be thinking about the olden days. They had fountain pen, right? Right. Lots of little bits. You have to buy more ink and whatever.

and just to have a pen that you might throw away. I mean, right now it's like a disposed pen is just a normal pen. Yeah, yeah. We just like when you say a pen, you mean a disposable pen. Yeah, right, right. Yeah, really, it was a materials engineering thing. It was they were the first ones to engineer the little ball, the ball and the ballpoint pen, like to get it engineered precision enough that it could smoothly carry ink.

All right. So in America, certainly, Colgate. If I say Colgate, you think of one product. Toothpaste. Toothpaste. Right, right. And, you know, my apology. to the Crest Company.

Crest is also there. I would say those are the one and two for American toothpaste names. So the Colgate Company, when they were founded, they didn't make toothpaste. That was not one of their original products. They made a lot of soaps and things of that nature. And it wasn't even actually until after William Colgate, the founder had died, that the company started getting into making toothpaste. So I want to ask you, what groundbreaking innovation in the world of toothpaste did Colgate

introduce in 1896. Karen. We talked about it in an earlier show. It is the tube. It is the tube. Yes. They were the first ones to put toothpaste in a tube. I believe someone who worked for Colgate or even someone from the Colgate family was in France and they saw painters using paint tubes.

And they're like, let's put toothpaste in that. Yes. Yeah. Do you know what the up until then? Do you know what it was? It would just come in a jar. And you kind of just like dig your tooth. Yeah, I know. It just sounds really gross and unsanitary. I mean, I don't, yeah, I don't want to

be sharing a jar or toothpaste with anybody else. I don't even know if I would want to be using it with just me day after day. Yeah, yeah. All right. You know, we've talked before a lot of electronics companies, you know, famously started off making totally unrelated, you know, modest object, like Nintendo started off making playing cards, for example. All right. This household, Japanese electronics company took its name from its very first consumer product, a mechanical pencil that never needed sharpening and don't overthink this will be my only hint Japanese household electronics company Sony no not Sony it was oh no I'm thinking I am thinking I hope you get it because you're going to be mad if you don't Japan I can't a mechanical pencil that

never needs sharp sharp sharp sharp electronics yeah their first product was a mechanical pencil. It was the sharp. Wow. Yeah. And I was like, I was like so metaphorical. Like, oh, they're just cutting edge electronics. It's like, no, it was just a pencil that stayed sharp. We'll come back to America for this one.

This popular snack cracker debuted in 1900. The manufacturing process was actually granted a patent covering a process to produce a, quote, filamentous cracker. What cracker am I talking about? Filament. Karen. Trisket. Trisket.

Yes. Yes, yes. Because it's made out of little strings. Yeah, yeah. And if you go back and look at a Tristad, it's like, oh, yeah. And that's what it is. It's extruded filaments of wheat. Yeah, Triscuit, patented.

But what about shredded wheat? It's a very similar process. Yeah, but like they had a machine that would sort of, you know, lay out the filaments of Cracker and then they would bake them. And so that machine process was patented by a Neska. Oh, man. I would love to see a video of how they make Triscuits. I bet that's somewhere.

Yeah. This is why I like stuff like how it's made, you know. You know, it's like you can see how they make filamentous crackers. I'm not a bookmark of that. We'll stay in the kitchen for this one. I keep my crackers in the kitchen. The design of what common kitchen item is often described as being inspired by a device called a gunworm used by soldiers. Gunworm.

This was a different. Karen. Is it one of those lighter things? Oh, you light the stone of the pilot? Let me describe a gunworm. It was a tool that it would use to extract unspent charges from. your gun barrel. And it's in your kitchen.

You would screw it in the barrel and extract. Karen. Cork screw. Cork screw. For wine. Yes, corkscrew for wine. Yeah. That sounds so tedious.

Well, it's funny. I mean, you know, before the invention of the corkscrew, you would just dig out the cork with a knife or you'd push it into the wine and filter it out. And there are reports that soldiers out in the field were starting to figure it out to use how the gunworms, and you're like, hey, hey, we can also adapt this to pull corks out of wine. All right, well, that was a little bit of tour around the house. Not bad, guys.

Awesome. All right, I have a quiz for you guys. It's called beef, pork, lamb, or chicken. So I will... I'm scared. I'll name a cut of meat. Oh. If it's beef, pork, lamb, or chicken.

All right. Okay. Beef pork, lamb or chicken. Beef pork, lamb, or chicken. Okay, we'll start really easy. Panchetta. Karen. Pork.

Yes. That is... Pig belly, yeah, pork from the pork belly meat. All right. Scrag end. Oh, that's it called. Beef. Nope.

Scrag end. What's a scrag? Scrag end. It just sounds like British English. It is British. Yeah, Scrag End. I'm going to guess lamb. Yes.

Yeah. It's from the neck. It's the part right next to the head. Scrag end. Scrag. It sounds delicious. It doesn't make me want to try it. Scragalicious.

Yeah. How about oysters? Karen. Chicken, yes. It's a small round dark meat on the back near the thigh. There are two of them on the chicken. How about Pope's eye? Ew.

Okay. I guess beef. Yes. Because I was just thinking like rib-eye. That was my connection. I don't know if that makes any sense. It's a thinly sliced rump steak. It doesn't look like a Pope's eye.

It tastes like Pope. I was about to make up a reason. I did read the Wikipedia. I was like, yeah, why is it Pope's eye? And it was just a very specialized fatty piece of meat. It's supposed to taste really good. Like, be a nice piece of, nice cut. How about trotters?

Trotters. Oh, pig. Pork. Yep. Yep. It's the feet. It's the feet. Yeah, that's right. Okay.

Yeah. They have little trotters. That's cute slash sad. Cougas slash sad slash delicious When I used to eat me Pigs Feed is so good I've never had Pigs Feed

But I It's all fatty and oh How about chump chops Chops? Chump chops Chops I said it to myself a lot of times Chump chops Chop! Sorry, well it's not going to be chicken

I want to chump chop I'm going to guess beef again No Gosh I'm going to keep guessing and I'm going to keep being wrong Every choir I think there is another beef one in here chump chop well okay so you have lamb chop and you have pork chop we had a bunch of pork

questions already so i'm can guess lamb yeah yes yeah good job yeah by frequency analysis you decoded my pattern it's um yeah it's a lamb it's between the loin and the leg okay not because the lamb is a chump well a little bit but no i don't know what it's called a jump chop i just no word well i can see it like i don't know like my the story that i just invented in my head is like this is the chop that chumps by it's not the best chop but you know maybe you can only afford the chump chop might be maybe good job thanks for humoring me we should fill in the Wikipedia page some more I've never seen two sets of eyes roll at once that was amazing we hang out a lot how about the best end I'm like gun shy now I don't

I guess. Best? No, it's okay. We're all friends. Do it. Is it beef? No. I hate you.

You're like Lucy with the football. I guess chicken. No. Oh, how's the chicken butt? It is lamb. See? You thought you were so clever and figured out my pattern. To lay and see the rocks.

Double up there. Wow. Which end is it? So it's the other side of the neck next to the loin. So like the scrag end is by the head. And then the best end is on the other side. Scragon, best end. How about tornadoes?

Torn. Torn. Torn. Torn. Torn. T-O-U-R-N-E-T-O-S. Yes, Charlie Barron? I believe that's beef. Yes. I actually thought that was beef. I wasn't just saying beef. Yeah, that's kind of a fancy one, too, right? Like you see that in French restaurants? That cut?

A tinderloin. And they call it. like filet mignon in the U.S. Oh. Okay. That's just another way to say filet mignon. Got it. All right.

Good job, Charlie Brown. The last one, jowl. Oh. Well, technically a lot of animals have. I think, I think, I think, yeah. I think that when you, most, yeah, the most jowl eaten animal is pig. Yeah, like as a cut of meat, the jowl is actually on the charts for the pig and not for the other animals. I look, I was like, yeah, they all have cheeks.

Yeah. But pork cheek is a thing. Wow, I really do not know my cuts of meat. Yeah, I know. Good job, you guys. All right. There's a butcher listening out there somewhere. It's like, amateur.

I picked the weird pieces of meats. Yay, go meet. So usually I save the music round for the end, but I thought it's a different music round. I figured I'd switch things up. So here I have a music round, and it's a little bit trickier. Throughout musical history, there have been a lot of songs that feature spells. Like songs that have like actually spell words in a sing-song pattern in the song. So usually in music round, I would play a bit of a song for a while and you guys can listen and deduce and figure out, you know, who's the artist.

I identify the band or the group or the singer. Instead of playing several clips, I have a super montage of ten clips of songs back to back next to each other very quickly. And each of these clip has just the spelling part of 10 songs. And I need you to identify performer. Okay. In front of you guys, they're notepads labeled 1 to 10 and listeners. You can do it in your head, or you can take some time now, get a piece of paper and write down your answers. So here we go.

These are all clips of spelling in songs. And these are all hits. All right. So here we go. Hello, hello, hello, hello, G E, L-I-T-E, L-I-T-E, R-E-S-B-E-E-S-B-A-L-A-N-A-N-E, R-E-E-S-B-A-L-A-N-A-N-A-E, G-L-A-N-A-N-A-E, D-L-A-N-A-N-A-E. D-L-A-A-E-L-A-E. To the V-E-A-C Hey

S-A-B-R-G-A-Y Hey S-A-T-R-T-Y-A-Y Wow That's fast, huh? That was fast. You guys want to do it again? Yeah, I think I need one more

one more run through. Do it again. Hello, hello, hello, L-E, L-I-T-E, L-I-T-E, R-E-S-B-C-C-T-E L-A-N-A-N-A-N-O-R-U-S, yeah, B-A-N-A-L-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-N-B-A-E-L-E-A-E-L-Y. We can go one by one. All right, yeah. Yeah, I feel like I got maybe a third of those.

Really? Yeah. Maybe half. Are you really impressed? I mean, impressed that's good or really, like, I did that poorly? I thought these were like, these are hits. Some of them are so fast. I'm like, oh, I know I've heard that, but what is it?

Yeah. All right, number one, here's the very short clip. Hello, hello, hello, L, D.E. Hello, hello, hello. I couldn't place it. Yeah, it feels relatively... L-O-O-O-V-E. Well, she's spelling love.

I know I've heard it. I know I've heard that. I just don't know who sings that song. It is Ashley Simpson. L-O-D-V-E dot is her song. Okay, okay. All right, number two, let's play the clip. Very short.

Okay. That one... You have to get it. Yeah, that one instantly, just such a distinctive way. That's, they might be giants. Yes. birdhouse in your soul correct number three the clip okay that was respect by aretha franklin yes absolutely yeah all right and the next one

that was lynn yeah steal my sunshine yeah good job that was the one like on the second run through it just like oh steal my sunshine yep yeah all right the next one A. M. O. R. O U.S. Yeah. Fergie. Oh, okay. That's who it was. Yeah. Fergie. That was another one.

I was like, oh, I know I've heard this. Fergie. She spells a lot in her songs, actually. She also spells delicious in a different song. But this is glamorous. Yeah. And I think, I believe it's probably the highest scrabble scoring word of this lot. Oh.

Yeah. All right. Next one. I didn't know. I didn't, I couldn't get this one. Old timing one, it's Cadillac because he's spelling Cadillac. Bo Didley. Oh. Bo Didley.

All right. Next one. B. A, yeah, N, A, N, A, yeah. Okay. Gwen Stefani, Hollaback girl. Yes. Colin, did you get that one?

On the second time through, yes, yes. That was another one. The first time through it was like, oh, my God. I've heard this before. Yep. But you have to sing the rest of the song in your head. Yeah, exactly. It was.

I had to kind of follow it through. and she just, her voice is distinctive. It is an explicit song, so I had to cut it very short because she doesn't see a nice word after spelling bananas. Next one. That was Gloria. Yes.

By the Kinks, I believe, right? Mm-mm. I didn't know it. Is it? G-L-O-R-A-Gloria. Not the animals? The band is Them fronted by Van Morrison.

Van Morrison's song That's right The voice was familiar It just was too short to like Yeah Yeah yeah That's definitely a public quiz song Yep yep definitely

All right next one Yeah this one I just wrote down a question mark I couldn't place this one It was too fast Yeah what was it They're actually spelling beat B EAT It is dance by justice

Big techno hit for them All right All right. And the last one. Here's a clip, one of the longer ones. Any guesses? I cannot remember who sings this ones. Yeah, I know the song.

God, it's, God, it's... That's a pub quiz one. Yeah, I cannot remember who sings this one. Bay City Rollers. That's right. That's right. Bay City Rollers. Good job.

That was hard. That was a good one. That was hard. But I figured I'd switch up kind of the format how we usually do. I like it. Cool. Keep you on your toes. All right.

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All right. Well, I put together a quiz for you guys that I called 50 questions about 50 states. And then I realized, no, that's just. terrible. So, I renamed it. Good. That'd be super long. I renamed it about seven questions, about maybe a dozen states. Okay. I'm working on the branding. Nice. So as you might have deduced, these are questions all about the United States of America, the individual states, the geography, their names, weird little trivia tidbits. Man, he's going to be hard. I think this will be a good one. I tried to include a lot that could be reasoned out. So hopefully, hopefully these aren't ones that

you either know it or you don't. Okay. All right. So you guys might not be surprised to hear that California is the most populous state. Makes a lot of sense. Big. Lots of people here. What is the least populous state?

Total. Total number of people. Okay. This is as of the 2010 census. So these are very accurate numbers. And I will give you this. It is not the smallest state. Yeah, because it's not per capita or anything, right?

You're just going straight by people. Law numbers, right? numbers. Oh, Ah. Wyoming. Karen. I heard what Karen buzz, but Dana said something. Oh, I was going to guess Alaska.

Not Alaska. Dana, would you care to guess? Wyoming? It is Wyoming. Wow. Yeah, it is sparse in Wyoming. Only just a little bit over 560,000 people. There are fewer people who live in the whole state of Wyoming than in Washington, D.C.

I mean, yeah, it's, yeah, even though I know that's not a state. All right. So, we'll stay with Wyoming here. So Wyoming is one of three states that have only, straight line borders. So there are three states in America that the states are perfectly straight lines that were in fact

based on surveying measurements. Not like squiggly or curing. Right, not defined by mountains or rivers, yeah. So I gave you one. So what are the other two states? All of the perimeter are straight lines. It doesn't have to be a rectangle, but only made of straight lines. No curves, no squiggles. Dana.

New Mexico? No. Really? Oh! They're all clustered together. They All three touch each other. I'll give you another hint there. Oh. Colorado? Colorado is one. Idaho?

Right direction, but go south. Montana. Utah. Utah. It's Utah. Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado are the only three where all of the boundaries are straight lined. You know, when they first laid down the boundaries, it was based on the limits of surveying

technology in the 1800s. And so they would define the boundaries as based on this latitude and longitude. With more precise measurements now, we can see that they're actually off by what They were defined as the legal boundaries, but they've agreed on the boundaries now. So they don't actually fit the latitude and longitude lines they're supposed to. But they're stuck with it now. Too bad. All right.

We're going to go the opposite of this question. What is the only state that has no straight lines anywhere in its boundary? Dana. Hawaii? It is Hawaii. I love this one. This is a good like, oh, of course question. Darn it.

Which makes sense, being all islands. All right, I've got a couple of questions for you guys about state names, and I think that you guys can reason these out. So the name of this state comes from the Spanish for the flowery land. Karen. Florida. Florida, yes, yes. This state takes its name from its famed Green Mountain Range. I'll give you a clue.

First colonized by the French. Dana. Vermont? Vermont. The Vermont, the Green Mountains. That one kind of blew my mind. It was like so simple. I was like Louisiana.

So yes, it was actually, you know, part of New France originally French colonists there. French capital, Montpellier. Duh. Yeah. All right. So we'll stick with Vermont here. I won't close it out with the last question. Ben juries, Ben juries.

Probably, yeah, the most famous Vermont business. That's right. Vermont. is one of four states that were previously sovereign entities, sovereign states, self-governing. So this is probably the least known that it was the Vermont Republic for 14 years before they joined the rest of the United States, the first state after the original 13 colonies. So what are the three other current states that were at one time in history sovereign independent entities? Karen.

I can name one. Okay. We can do this as a joint effort here. Rhode Island. No. What? Rhode Island had a crazy name, like the Rhode Island and Providence plantations.

Yep. No. No. Dana. Texas? Texas is one. Oh, yes. That's right.

The Republic of Texas. Yes. California. California is one. Yes, Republic California. That's right. The California Republic, not Utah. The state used to have a queen.

Oh, Hawaii. Hawaii. Oh, of course. Yes. Texas, California, Hawaii, and Vermont were all at one time, their own independent state. Oh, I feel bad for Vermont. Kind of overshadowed by Hawaii. don't hear as much about it yeah yeah and it is a proud fiercely proud uh history of the vermont

republic yeah so ben jerry's just saying all right well good job guys all right so i call this quiz hey there little buddy and it's a this one's so creepy i know i'm like chris hansis step into my van hey there little buddy it's about sidekicks oh oh all right not vans It's a lightning round, so we'll see how many you can get. Okay. Oh, okay, okay. So you're going to read a person. I'll read a person.

You tell me their sidekick, and it's a person from film or literature or TV. For example, if I said Batman, who's Batman's sidekick? We would say Robin. Oh, oh, okay. Yeah, Robin. Sometimes he had many, and there are different incarnations of Robin. Karen's totally overthinking that one, yeah. Okay, go for the obvious one.

So I give you pads, and that is so you can keep your own score. There's about 30 main character sidekick pairings. Okay. And it's a speed round. We're just going to buzz in and yell it out. Honor system with your scorekeeping. Okay. First one.

Sherlock Holmes. Watson. John Watson. All right. Doctor John Watson. Do you get extra points? Indeed. Sure.

Johnny Carson. Colin. Ed McMahon. Oh. Yes. David Letterman. Paul Schaefer. Yes.

Gumbie. Colin Pokey Rocky J. Squirrel Colin Bull Winkle Moose Yes Captain Hook

Karen Shmi Yes Garfield Odie Yes What about Nirmal He was more of his

antagonist Yeah Penn Collin Teller Don Quayote Oh Oh uh

Sancho Panza All right The judges We'll give it to you All right. Snoopy, Karen. Woodstock, yes. Calvin. Karen. Hobbs, yes. Shrek. Karen. Donkey. Yes. The lone ranger. Tonto.

Silver? That wasn't really the sidekick. Okay. Magneto. Karen. Oh, mystique. Yes. Oversing. No, don't go that. Do you mean in the movies or in the books? Because I think Juggernaut has a perfectly acceptable claim. too.

All right. Robin Hood. Karen. Little John? Yes. Okay. Because there's also Friar Tuck as well. All the Mary Men.

Spongebob Square Pants. Karen. Patrick the Starfish. Yes. Fagan. Oh. Yeah, from Oliver Twist. God, what was his?

Karen. Artful Dodger. Yes. Yes. Yes, that's right. Yeah, you're welcome. Big Daddy. Karen, little sister.

Sorry, Big Daddy from Kickass. Oh, darn it. I got it. I get it first. Oh. Colin. Darn. Hey, girl.

I was thinking BioShack. It's a big daddy, little sister. Zena. Oh, Gabrielle. Yes. I can't believe I remember that. Han Solo. Karen.

Chewbacca. Oh, this feels so good, Colin. So good. Ralph Cremnan. Ed Norton. Yes. Wait, what? Who are those?

The honeymooners. Oh, okay. Edward Norton? No. Lucy Ricardo. Karen. Desi Ernest. From the I love Lucy's show, who was the sidekick.

Oh. Ethel Mertz? Yes. Conan O'Brien. Colin? Andy Richter. Yes. Robinson Crusoe.

Colin. Friday. Yes. Ferris Bueller. Cameron. Yes. Fred Flintstone. Barney.

Yes. Based on Ed Norton. Oh, that's right. Yes. Good job. Woo! Oh, man. I got 15.

I got 12. Oh, it was close. Good job, you guys. I got the Star Wars one. Yeah. Yeah, and believe me, I will never hear the end of that one. Pretty sweet. It's getting high.

in here. I like that. That was a good quiz. Yeah, my blood is, my blood, my heartbeat is racing here. No frills, delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express.

Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrills.ca. All right. I'm next. I guess this is the last quiz segment of today's show. And this is for all.

All the movie buffs. Mm-hmm. The theme of this segment is about biographies, biopics, movies about famous people. Okay. And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to list three actors from the movie. Okay. You have to buzz in and tell me what movie and who was the subject or the main person, the person's biography. Okay.

Okay. You can buzz in any time, but it might be tricky because a lot of actors overlap. too. So you want to make sure you're guessing the right one. All right. Yeah, you want to guess early, but not too early. Yep, yep. And I'm reading these actors' names by their roles from very supporting to supporting to Maine. Okay. We're going to start off with this one. Ben Kingsley, Ray Fines Lee. That's Schindler's List? Yes, Schindler's List. And whose biography is it? Oscar Schindler. Yes, Oscar Schindler. And the last name is Liam Neeson, who

played Oscar Schindler. All right. Robert De Niro. Joe Pesci. Ray Leota. Oh. All right. So that's Goodfellas.

Correct. That was Henry Hill. Yes, Henry Hill. And some of these are actually very interesting because I had no idea that these actors were in movies. They had bit parts, but it's pretty cool. Like this one. Lizzie Kaplan, Jan is from Mean Girls, if you remember.

Amber Tamblin James Franco I only know one movie she was guessing milk incorrect James Franco is the star he played the person his biography was about

yeah what was 127 hours yes oh of course 127 hours do you know what was Aaron Rudolph Aaron Walston You're in Ralston.

Yep, the guy who cut off his own arm. With his own pocket knife. Yep. All right. This one's a little bit tricky. Rita Moreno. Deborah Kerr. Yule Brenner.

Oh. The king and I? Yes, the King and I. All right. The King of Siam. Specifically. I don't actually remember. King Munkut.

Okay. And Anna, from King and I, the Eyes referring to Anna. Anna Linowans. Right, this one's for you, Dana. Oh. James Franco. Uh-huh.

Josh Brolin. Sean Penn. Oh. Milk. This is milk. Yes. About Harvey Milk. About Harvey Milk.

All right, next one. Guy Pierce. Helena Bonham Carter. Colin Firth. Oh. I'm actually not mentioning another actor because it's very apparent. Right. the king's speech correct yes yes yes the king speech king edward i i don't remember who it was uh the king george

the sixth king george the sixth right right right king sixth king speech just like two years ago yeah right right sarah jessica parker martin landau Johnny Depp Martin Lando Oh, Martin Lando Johnny Depp Oh, oh this was Ed Wood

Yes, good job Ed Wood Johnny Depp played Ed Wood, the very eccentric director and Martin Lando was Bella Lagosie That's right, that's right

Here's another one, odd group of actors Courtney Love Is that People versus Larry Flint Oh yeah Yes if that's what I'm thinking of But this is another one

Because you did late I got burned Yeah But she was in with Woody Harrelson And the people versus Larry Flint About Larry Flint Courtney Love Danny DeVito

Jim Carrey Man Danny DeVito Jim Carrey Should be enough to narrow it down Why Was it Danny Was it A biopic

A biopic man Oh. Is it the man in the moon? Yes. Man on the moon. Of course. I'm forgetting the basic theme of this quiz is that's right. Yeah.

Andy Kaufman. Yes. Legendary comedian, Andy Kaufman. Recent hit. Justin Timberlake. Andrew Garfield. And lastly, Jesse Eisenberg. The social network.

Yes, the social network. About Mark Zuckerberg. Yes. And last one. Gwen Stefani I know Huh Weird

She had a very Bitroll Kate Blanchette Leonardo DiCaprio Oh Wait Kate Blanchett Leonardo DiCaprio That was the

The clue is Gwen Stefani and Kate Blanchett played a very famous actresses In real life What year was this movie? 2004

I believe Yeah it's like Oh, I know who it is, who, wasn't it like about Howard Hughes? Yes. Oh, the aviator. The aviator. You know, I never saw that. I didn't know Gwen Stefani had a part in that one.

She played. It was a Jean Harlow or so. Yes, she played Gene Harlow. Tricky. Good job, everybody. That was good. That's good. There's so many biographies.

Morgan Friedman and Invictus. Oh, hey, save those for a future quiz. Yeah. Don't be giving them away now. Giving them away for free. I'm a chump chop. all right that's our show our all quiz number 12 thank you guys for joining me and thank you guys listeners for listening in hope you learn a lot about movie biographies cuts of meat that's very important very handy u.s states all very good trivia pub quiz fodder definitely definitely and hopefully chris will be back soon and you can find our podcast on iTunes on Stitcher on SoundCloud, and also on our website, which is goodjobbrain.com, and check out our sponsor

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