Good Job, Brain! - 85: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #17

Episode Date: November 6, 2013

We're down a person but we're making it up by SMUSHING MORE QUIZZES UP YOUR EAR-HOLES. Yo dawg, I heard you like portmanteaus - so enjoy a crazy portmanteau-ception! Chris gets musical with "Who am I?" and blows our minds with tricky foreign-sounding company name quiz. Colin whets our appetite with questions about restaurants and cooking, and listeners Ben & Jon crafted us a rather....sinister segment. ALSO: E.L.V.I.S. watches TV! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, hodgepodge of honey's holographs and honchos hollering for hoot-nanny. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and Offbeat Trivia podcast. This is episode 85, and I am your humble host, Karen. And we are your irrefutably irreplaceable and irresistible, irregulars, irradiating iridescence. Oh, I'm Colin. And I'm Chris. No, Dana, this week she is out in Austin, hopefully having fun.

So it's just us three for this episode. Right. So happy November, everybody. It's the first full week of November. And did you know that their names for every month's full moons, or at least in the United States? Oh, yeah. Really? Yeah.

So November is the full beaver moon. Hey. Yep. Because this was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze. So they can get the warm winter furs. I like that. Yes. This month is the full beaver moon.

All right. Anyway. And let's jump into our first general trivia segment, Pop Quiz, Hot Shot. I'm not sure whether anybody likes this or hates it, but it's time again. It is time again for 19. 1960s Jeopardy. That's right. It's questions and answers, or excuse me, answers and questions out of a vintage Jeopardy set that we bought at the flea market, the dates from the 60s. I'm going to crank up the difficulty for this round because I've been picking out these categories that have questions and answers that are a little bit easier for us to answer even now. And this time, I think we're going to make it a little bit more difficult. Here are some of the things that people would have been expected to know. In the 60s. In the den, playing Jeopardy with the family.

Yeah, 1965. We have buzzers. All right, I'm a little frightened. Yeah. This is a showdown. This is like if somebody was eliminated in the first round. Yeah, exactly. If they're negative going into double jeopardy and they just don't get to play anymore.

Category is opera. Oh, God. Okay. It's taking a really bad turn here, Karen. Word used to describe singers' vocal limits. Colin? It's not just rain. It is just range.

All right. What is range? You know, we're warming up here. Kind of factory in which Carmen works. Oh, man. What was it? Oh. Colin.

What is a clothing factory? Not a clothing factory. It is a cigarette factory. Oh, I didn't know. Oh. Gershwin wrote this first truly American opera. Oh. The first truly American opera.

Colin. Was that Porgy and Bess? It is Porgy and Bess? What is Porgy and Bess? Consider the first truly American opera. Okay. That's actually a, that would come up in PubTrivit now. For sure, right?

For sure. And maybe this won't. Jemmy is his son in Rossini's opera. Must be a title character. If we can name any Rossini opera, I would go for that. If you know any of them at all. Karen. William Tell.

Who is William Tell? What is? William Tell. Who is? Where are William Tell? How. And finally, for a million dollars. In a famous aria, she's described as Celeste.

This is how tough this home game was. I'm not getting the reference. What is the magic flute? No, not the magic flute. Who is Aida? Oh. Who is Aida? Yeah, right, right.

Like, I've heard of that. Well, there's your crazy 60s Jeopardy. Yeah. Wow. Apparently, there are a lot more culture than we are now. Yes. Maybe they might not have known a game, as you say, you know. Good job, brains.

And so today is episode 85. In every fifth episode, we have an all-quiz bonanza episode where it's just all-quiz. There's no theme. We've all prepared quiz segments and puzzle segments for each other. So today is all-quiz. Winanza number what is it? What's 85 to 5 by 5?

17? 18 or 19? No, it would be 0 if it was an even number. We should do much better recordkeeping. I think it's 17. I think it's 17. 17.

17. Yay! Who wants to go first? I will kick us off. Oh, okay. Well, it's been quite well documented on the show that we are fans of good food and

eating and I know you guys I know you two in particular are fans of cooking shows and I've put together a restaurant and kitchenery quiz special just for you guys Oh just for yeah They call me Cookie Monster at work because I eat a lot Sorry I don't know why

I hope it won't be embarrassing you But I believe you have a picture of Alton Brown is your phone wallpaper, yes I have him and Mythbusters together as my phone wallpaper. If you're eating at a fancier restaurant, you will often interact with the mater D. And I'm sure you guys know, we all know what the mater D does, you know, essentially directing the serving staff and assigning tables and more or less just running the front part of a

restaurant. So can you tell me, please, where does the term matre d come from? Chris. French. Yes. French. But maybe you wanted more than that? Yeah.

Well, you know, I'll give you half a point for that. It means like master of, right? Yeah, you're really on the right track. Uh-huh. So it's Mater D of, because D is of. Right, that's right. So they probably just drop the whatever. It is.

It's dropped. I mean, especially in America, we've dropped. It's Maitre d'Otel. Oh, okay. The hotel, you know, master of the hotel, or more colloquially, master of the house. Yep. Oh, master of the house. Master of the house.

So I first learned the word Mator D from Aladdin. It was like, that was like a source of a lot of words I didn't know as a kid. I was like, what's nom to plume? What's mater D? It was like, wow. Okay, anyways. So a traditional oven uses radiant heat to cook food. Pretty straightforward.

The oldest kind of ovens we have. Okay. And a microwave oven uses electromagnetic waves to heat food. How does a convection oven heat food? What is specific to a convection oven? Chris. Is it air, airflow? Yeah, that's right.

Yeah. Basically, it blows heated air around the food. It's like in those infomercials where they have like the arrows that just keeps going. Yeah, yeah, with a red arrow. Yeah. It heats food with red arrows. Yes, yes, yes. We pioneered red arrow technology on our food.

So what's the benefit of that? They say the main benefit is that it cooks food a lot more evenly and at lower temperature. So you can bake, you can cook the same dish in sometimes faster. and at lower temperature because it's constantly circulating the air around it. Got it. Yeah. All right. So what makes virgin olive oil virgin or extra virgin for that matter?

What's different about virgin olive oil and olive oil that's not virgin? Karen. So olive oil is made by pressing and extracting the oil from actual olives. And I think virgin is the first pass of the oil being extracted. They keep pressing it over again to collect it. That's so close to the answer I'm going to give it to you. Okay. What is it?

So broadly speaking, the virgin olive oil is olive oil that's only been produced using mechanical means. As you say, like it's only been produced by pressing, squeezing, no chemicals or anything to modify the taste. So it's in opposition to other types of refined olive oil could be olive oil that's been pressed and mechanically produced but has had chemicals. added to it, additives, either to bring the acidity down or to control like a really strong flavor that you may not want to eat otherwise. So you can call it virgin or extra virgin. And basically those distinctions are kind of arbitrary. Tainted with chemicals.

Yeah, extra version is like the fanciest of the virgin. Okay. Yeah. What is the official name for the white, poofy, pleaded chef's hat that is iconic? Like if even though you're a little kid drawing a picture of a chef, You just, you start with that, that, it has a name. Like the Swedish chef hat. Yes.

It is called a toke. Yes. Yes. Wow. T-O-Q-U-E. T-O-Q-U-E. Again, like many cooking culinary terms, it is French. Fully, the name is a Toc Blanche.

White hat. Yes, white toke. All right. So, well done. That's the end of the quiz portion. I did come across one fun anecdote I have to share with you guys. Just, and it is food related, and this cracked me up. I know it's all quiz.

So have you guys heard of Funistrata edition? called Funestrada. I guess no. Funestrada is a fake dish. Story goes that in the mid-1970s, the U.S. Army was conducting a broad survey of soldiers' food preferences. And so they were essentially asking the respondents to rank their preferences for various foods to sort of decide, what are we going to keep serving, what are the troops like, what are

they not like? And apparently in an effort to either insert some controls or just to see if people were paying attention, they inserted some fake food dishes to see how they would rank. Now, one of the fake dishes they came up with was a dish called Funestrada. Oh, no. And Funestrada ranked relatively high. It ranked higher than eggplant. It ranked higher than lima beans. Grilled baloney, beats. It ended up being ranked higher than instant coffee. Huh. What is it? It's nothing. It's totally fake. But the fact that people would rank it above these other dishes that they actually liked. Maybe they were voting for it.

it because they were like, they wanted to try something new. Yeah, I want to try this. Or it sounds fancy. This food strata. Right. There were other two dishes in the survey that were fake. These are just so funny to me were buttered, buttered ermil. Ermal.

Ermal. Buttered, buttered ermil and brazed trache. That sounds real. It does. It sounds like a fish. Does it like a fish dish? Like a nice little piece of white fish. Yeah.

Wow. So buttered ermil and braised. Trache and Funestrata. Someone was having fun. Yes. So my turn. And I want to give a cool shout out to listeners, Ben Williams and John Lewis, who submitted this quiz. And I thought it was awesome.

I want to share with you guys. I'm not going to tell you what the theme of this quiz is yet. This first part, what I'm going to do is read you a weird movie title. And it's not an actual movie title. It's actually a phrase made out of one word from three different movies. And you have to figure out who is the star of that movie. So it sounds complicated. For example, if I say top thunder impossible.

Tom Cruise. You'd say Tom Cruise, yes. And because Top Gun, Days of Thunder, and Mission Impossible. And so it's going to follow that format. Oh, I was thinking Tropic Thunder. Oh, he was in Tropic Thunder, too. Yeah, that's true. It's another one.

Two points for Chris. So I'm going to read it in that format, and you guys have notepads. You're going to write down the actor or actress that's in this weird puzzle movie title. Okay. All right. Okay. Here we go. Number one.

Meet Jackie Driver. Meet Jackie Driver. Oh, okay. All right. So three movies, one word from each movie title. Giving up is a valid option, Colin. he's like no man meet jackie driver five four three two one all right answers up chris you have robert de nero oh yeah Colin you put I had been stiller oh yeah no close it is uh it is Robert

De Niro meet the parents I got that's why I went off the rails yeah Jackie Brown yeah and uh taxi driver I forgot he was in Jackie Brown yep uh right the next Next one. Oceans in glorious Mexican. Answers up. Yes, both of you guys are correct. The answer is Brad Pitt. Oceans 11.

Enlorious bastards. And the Mexican. Yep. Pretty steel hill. Pretty steel hill. Answers up calling Yes, correct Julia Bobbos

Julic Bobbos Oh no, it's the Yeah, the Serbian star Jewelik Bobbos That's I didn't mean Your head writing is so bad It was just under pressure It's Juulic Correct, it is Julia Roberts

That's a pretty woman Steel Magnolia And what was the last one? Hill. That I don't know. Yeah, I just knew it just on the first two. Notting. Oh, not a hill.

Okay, okay. All right. Trading Ghost Brothers. Trading Ghost Brothers. Oh. I know. I'm stuck on this one now, too. All right.

Answers up. Oh. Chris says Dan Aykroyd and Colin puts Eddie Murphy. Well, the answer is Dan Aykroyd. Oh, yes. But I bet we can fit something with any mercy. I was thinking there, wasn't there like a trading places, ghostbusters. My favorite movie, Ghostbusters, and Blues Brothers.

Oh, Blues Brothers. Yeah, okay. So wasn't he in a ghost? I was thinking of it, wasn't there a Ghost Dad? Yeah. Oh, was it Bill Cosby? Okay. You can have our listeners right this in.

That's as far as I went with that. Yeah. No, no, it's Dan Aykroyd. Yeah. All right. All right, next one. 50 terrestrial angels. Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Yeah? Oh, man, I got it, and I'm actually glanking on this person's name, as terrible as that is. I know the answer. I just, I've totally like, my brain has zero. Okay, well, none of you guys got it, but can you name the movie, Chris? It's 51st day. It's ET, the extraterrestrial, and some movie with angels, but it's what is her freaking name? I was just focusing on. I put Henry Thomas because the only thing I could place was E.T. Extraterrestrial.

It's, it's, um, I know it's just one of those things where it's like, I know the person we're talking about. How funny is that, like, it's just, it's gone out of my brain. Oh, Drew Barrymore. Yes. Oh, of course. That's good. All right. Uh, last two.

Here we go. Natural horse sneakers. Natural horse sneakers. You make me feel like the natural. Horse Sneakers All right answers up Chris puts

Julia Lewis and I always I keep getting the Woody Harold Well I think we're both thinking of natural born killer Robert natural It is the natural

Oh Robert Redford Yes Horse Whisper And sneakers Robert Redford All right Last one

Purple Frog Butler Purple Frog Butler This is a recent too Yes, yes it is Here we go Answers up

Oprah Is Oprah Winfrey You guys got it right Oprah Winfrey Color Purple Princes and the Frog And the Butler The Butler

Very good That was the giveaway Now there was a theme Oh I'll just tell you Because it's not It's not going to be guessable So all of these

actors and actresses are left-handed. So now I got some cool questions about left-handedness. Oh, all right. And the listeners, Ben and John, they're both left-handed, so they're like, we're going to dedicate this whole, like, quiz to being left-handed, celebrate left-handedness. So here we go. Well, since it's YouTube, I'm going to ask you guys this first.

Go on. What is the name of Ned Flanders' left-handed specialty store that is located at Springfield Mall in the show The Simpsons? The leftorium. Yes, the leftorium. And there is, there's a left-handed store in San Francisco out on Fisherman's Wharf now. Yes. It's just like the lectorium.

There are a lot of like little shops and stuff, but there actually was a real first left-handling shop in the world. And it was called Anything Left-Handed in London back in 1968. Whoa. Yep. And they still have the largest range. It went from store to mail. order to now online store. I don't think they have the brick and mortar shop anymore, but they also catered their

web customers and members of the online left-handers club. And they sell just a whole range of left-handed stuff. It makes sense. It is one of those things that at first it sounds like a joke, but then you're like, oh, no, that would actually be really useful. Wait, are you guys left-hand? I am not. I am not.

I've always been really jealous and wish I was left-handed. Really? Because they would say things like, oh, left-handed people are more creative. Oh, you're like, oh, I'm just a boring right-handed. Right. You can train yourself to be left-handed. Which historical great wrote backwards in order to prevent smudging due to left-handedness? Oh, wasn't that Da Vinci?

Yes. I thought I... Not the turtle. Oh, I thought he did it as like a means of encryption, or was it... It's both. So there isn't a definitive reason. We knew that he did mirror writing, which is like he wrote backwards, basically, that you can reflect in the mirror and read it the right way. It's unknown why he did this. It could be because

he wanted to keep a secret, but it's not hard. You just show it on the mirror and you read it. So it's not that. Yeah, I always kind of wondered that. I'm like, it's like, you just look at it instantly and be like, oh, just get a mirror. One of the reasons that people are theorizing is because it prevents smudging because he was left-handed. That makes more sense. And he just adopted a new way to write stuff so he won't smudge. All right. Which famous runway model was not a An Ambie Turner, claiming he was not able to turn left. Zoolander? Yeah, I believe it's Derek Zoolander.

He couldn't go left, right? Yeah, Ambie Turner. Okay, this, you guys, I think we talked about this before, but it's okay if you guys don't know. What is the longest word that can be typed only using the left hand with a conventional hand placement on a QWERTY keyboard? Oh, left hand. We have had this before. I don't remember. It wasn't, it's not typewriter because it's the other hand.

other hand, right? Or it's all in the top row, right? Yeah. Oh, really? I believe so, yeah. Yeah. All the letters for typewriter are in the top row. You're not getting.

Cordiastiff. Courteastiv a zikazim. Dad. Cortiastive and zikazim. It is, in fact, Tessera decades. Whoa, yeah. After cataracts. And sometimes, it depends,

sweater dresses. Sometimes it's hyphenated. Tessera decade is a group of 14. Tessa, yeah. Four, decade. Oh, I thought it was like Jurassic. Yeah. Weird eras or something. Yeah, a buttload of years.

Yeah. Just see somebody arranging things on a table. It's like, oh, oh, look, there's a whole Tessera decade of pigs and blankets on this play. Can you have me my keys? They're next to that Tessera decade of books there. What a jerk. So there you go. Thank you, Ben and John, for sharing your love for left-handed things with us and I can share it with everybody.

Awesome quiz. I'll have sinister motives for sending that in. I'll show myself out. Get out. Get out. So let me ask you guys this question. Do you know what Hagen-Daz means? Oh.

Karen. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. It was a made up out of nowhere by a guy in the Bronx who wanted a foreign sounding name for his ice cream. Mission accomplished. Put words and umlouts together. So you'd think that this would leave me to develop a quiz about made up names, but it didn't. Because everybody makes up names for things all the time.

Yeah. What I got really interested in was artificial foreign branding. Oh. The idea that you would name your product something that sounded foreign even though it was actually. a domestic. Got it, because it fits with whatever the image you're trying to sell.

Exactly. Got it. Got it. So here is a quiz where I will describe several companies to you that you've heard of that used artificially

foreign branding. Okay. Okay. Although there are many Japanese video game companies, this early company founded in Sunnyvale, California,

just borrowed a Japanese word for its name. Karen. Atari. Atari, yes. That's actually really good naming for them. that it totally sounds Japanese.

It is Japanese. What is it means? It's when you're playing Go, the game with the black and white stones. I read that story. Yeah, that's right. Atari is, it's like, it's telling somebody that one of their pieces is about to be captured. Oh. Kind of like a checkmate.

Oh, I did check. Didn't know that. That's interesting. Actually, Nolan Bush and Lowe founded Atari, founded another company afterwards, which he called Sente, which actually is the word meaning checkmate, as in like I did. Did you one better. Yeah. Similarly, these knives, often sold on television, have a Japanese sounding name that means nothing at all, Colin? These are a ginsu knives.

But wait, there's more. It can cut through a shoe. I might need to cut my shoe with a knife, honey. Oh, yeah, they cut through like a can of frozen tomatoes. That might come in handy. Yep. Ginsu doesn't mean anything. Just totally fake, made up.

And come from America. Yeah. This chain of family restaurants was started in Tampa. of Florida, although the branding really makes you wonder how Niners react at the six locations that it does operate in Australia. Is this Outback Steakhouse?

They actually have them in Australia? They actually have six of them in Australia. Is it a, like, I would love to know what it's like. I'm surprised that they have the brass to open their restaurants in Australia. Yeah, they did. And finally, a little

weird twist on this. We've set on the show before, I believe, that German chocolate cake was not actually invented in Germany, was invented by a guy with the last name, German. Similarly, the French dip sandwich was not invented in France. It was invented in L.A. Do you know why it is called the French dip sandwich? Man, this is in so many, like, cooking, travel food shows. I always, oh. Why is it called the French dip? Is it, is it because someone's Mr. French? It is not. That would be too easy.

Yeah, that's the only guess I have. French kissing? French. Some of the French fries, I don't know. It is called the French dip because it was served on a French roll. Oh, yes. And you dipped it in the ocean. Right there in the name.

But yes, now you know, now you're better equipped as consumers to go out there into the world and reject the fake foreign branding. Or, you know, I can keep eating. You can keep eating Hagenbaas. It's okay. Would you guys count a Victoria's Secret as part of that? Like, do you think they're trying to sound British, even though they're American, right? No. No?

Do you think that they're trying to? I always got the sense that they were trying to be European. Because I shop there all the time. Maybe that only exists in your mind. Yeah. All right. Awesome. Let's take a quick ad break.

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This is a quiz called formerly known as dot, dot, dot, dot. So this is about mainly countries that are now known by one name that were either known as a different name as a country or may have been a region that gained independence. So I will be giving you the formerly known as name and maybe a little bit of background. And you tell me currently known as. All right. So Karen's trying to brainstorm right now in her head. So let's get started here. This is good pup trivia fodder.

Oh, it's fantastic. Like, we get these all the time. Any one of these, in fact, well, we'll wait until we get there. Okay, all right. So you guys each have your pad of paper and your pen. I will read out the questions and you write down your answers. Here we go. Until 1972, this island nation was known as Ceylon.

Salon. Oh, oh. Oh, where is your from? I don't care how you get there. Whatever mental thread works for you. All right, answers up. Karen says Sri Lanka. Nice.

Chris says Sri Lanka. Correct. I was like, where's M.I.A. from? This city was named Byzantium in ancient times long before being sung about by bands like they might be giants. Oh, I was just seeing that's on my head. Wait. Uh-huh. You have to figure out which one answer here.

Yeah. Wait, we're putting country or a city? This is a city. All right, answers up. Chris says, Ha-ha, very nice. Chris has Constantinople crossed out and Istanbul written in, correct, yes. And Karen, Istanbul, yes, Istanbul. Since 1930, it's been Istanbul before that Constantinople and other names at various times.

But Byzantium, yes. So Byzantium, Istanbul, Constantinople, all in the same spot. All right, Karen, so this is, we had a question in pub quiz a couple weeks ago, and I think we got this one right, but there was much gnashing of teeth. to get there. So this is related to that. This is the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa and was known as Zaireer from 1971 to 1997. What sub-Saharan, like within the Saharan region? Below the Saharan, yeah.

South of. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Karen's doing a lot of writing. It answers up. Karen has written People's Republic of Congo, which is incorrect. But that was you're on the right track. Chris Zimbabwe, not correct.

It is the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Not to be confused with the Republic of the Congo. I just figured they kept the Z. The two are Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is much bigger, capitalist Kinshasa, and smaller and to the west of it is Republic of the Congo, capital Brazzaville. Huh. How do I remember that? Bigger.

Bigger name, bigger country, maybe. Oh, yeah. Oh, bigger name, bigger country. There we go. The regions formerly known as Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia are known by what names now, both beginning with the letter Z. So you got a nice big, fat hint there. These are two countries. Oh, two countries that start with Z? Both start with Z, and they are adjacent.

All right. answers up Chris has I love that you had Zimbabwe on the last question Yes Chris says Zimbabwe and Zaire You're half right Karen is correct Yes Zimbabwe and Zambia

Zambia is no longer a country Why do you know that? It was just on the previous question Oh you're kidding me All right Last one here The city in Russia That we call St. Petersburg today

was originally named St. Petersburg But in between its founding and today, it had two other names. So I'll give you a point for either of the names. You don't need to get both. Either of the two names that it had between its founding and today. Okay. Oh, man, I only know one.

Oh, I think I know the other one. Oh, excellent. All right, answers up. Karen wrote Stalingrad, incorrect. Chris wrote Leningrad. Yes, that is correct. Oh. Yes.

It was St. Petersburg when it was founded. Then it was Petrograd. Then it was Leningrad. And then back to St. Petersburg again. Did they call anything Stalingrad? Yes. Different city? Different city.

That was hard. But those were all good trivia questions. Those are all ones that could show up. I can't believe we got that sub-Saharan one. Hey, hey, hey, I'm very excited about this quiz. I heard you were excited about this quiz. I was inspired listening back to our last episode. There are a lot of just little things I kind of picked up and decided to dedicate a whole quiz segment to it.

Early in the last episode, we talked about the pixel and the voxel, right? Pixel is a picture element. A voxel is basically a 3D version, a volumetric pixel. And you said, Chris, you're like, oh, that's like a portmanteau of a portmanteau. Yes. So I made a crazy multi-segmented portmanteau pleasure. portable portmanteau puzzles to share with you guys. Yo dog, I hear you like portmanteaus.

This is the format of how this quiz is going to work. I'm going to give you a hint. You have to tell me the word I'm asking for, the actual pormanteau word, and then what that word is made out of. So a portmanteau is a combination or a new word that is made above other words, like a pixel picture element jamming together. Carmageddon, spork, you know, all that stuff. What other words are portmanteaus of portmanteaus?

Oh, gee. Second, second order. Not a lot of them. Took me a long time to live out. Not very many. Not very many. Haven't slept in four days, but they are. And I wrote the word portmanteau all over the walls in my apartment.

With strings attached, newspaper clippings. Why did you write this in your own blood? Where did you want to need for this? Where did you have all these, this yarn and pushpins? Pictures of exhibit. With the eyes cut out So all of these words actually Not a big surprise

Are all stem from computer Or technology terms Here we go First question This is a diary You can watch on YouTube Oh a vlog Which is a video blog

And then blog is from web log Correct Porento of a Permanto I'm picking famous words I'm sure there are a lot of different trades and different, you know, niche areas that use a lot of, you know, different permanteaus, but these are the more well-known ones.

I always like that example because, like, as much people hate the word blog, you're like, how could you make it any worse? It's like, oh, we can make it worse. Vlog. It's just... All right. This is the maker of Firefox and Thunderbird.

Oh. Mozilla. Correct. Mobile Godzilla. It's like a little portable A pocket size, Godzilla Half of it Is it Mosaic and Godzilla?

Close. So it's Mosaic killer Wohr What is it? Mosaic killer. Mosaic used to be an old browser Web browser. Mosaic killer

And Godzilla. Godzilla is a portmanteau Of God lizard, right? Wasn't it? Or? Of gorilla. No, guerrilla.

And whale. And whale in Japanese Kuzida. Yeah. So Godzilla is Gorilla Whale, and then you have Mosaic killer Godzilla. Mosaic killer gorilla whale. Of course. You know.

All right. This might be a more technical term, but I'm sure we're familiar with this. I don't know if you're familiar with the actual term. It is the deliberate website manipulation, so websites will rank higher on search engines. Oh. Ways you can do this is repeating key terms or you stuff a bunch of words at the bottom of the page. Do you hide it? Is that Google bombing?

Yeah, is that? What is it? It's called spam-dexing. Spam-dexing. Which is spam and indexing. And spam is already a portmanteau. Space ham. Spiced ham.

Spiced ham. Space ham. Space ham. Space ham. The ham's in space. That is the thing, though. Why is spam called spam? Did you guys know that?

this. Why? Like we, oh, this guy's a spammer, I keep getting, oh, oh, oh, because the Monty Python Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. From a Monty Python, a Flying Circus sketch where they're in a restaurant, like our cafe and everything is just spam filled. Spam, spam, and more spam. Yeah, and so we call spam spam spam. Wait, I mean, the early users of the internet were huge nerds. Hang things after Monty Python. Hold on. I've heard this term, but it's not that well-known, blam, which is blog spam, which is a portmanteau where two

of those words are also portmanteaus. This is the only example. That's the ultimate example. That is the ultimate one. Blam. So, blog spam, web, log, spice, ham. Took me a while to get out. That is well done.

Okay, we're moving on to the next portmanteau section. These are pormentos that are made up of three words. I cannot even process what is happening right now. And we also talked about this in our last episode, Haribaut. Oh, yes. The gummy bears is Hans Regal from Bonn.

So Haribo. All right. Okay. So here's some clues. Tell me the word and tell me the three different things that make up that word. The central administrative pillar of this union is located in the city, Brussels. Chris. Benelux.

Which is? So Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg? Correct. Okay. Very good. All right. The Royal Roast and the Pandora's cushion are variants of this food item. Oh, like a turducken?

Yes. Yes. Which is a turkey, a duck, and chicken. Yes, correct. And last one. This is one of the most desirable and expensive neighborhoods in New York City, also home of its namesake film festival. Oh, that is. Tribeca. Correct. Which comes from the triangle below canal. Yes. Wow. Very good. I thought it was like three

streets or three neighborhoods, but I didn't know what stood for like a description. Triangle below canal street. And there you go. That is my ultimate portmanteau quiz. Took me a long time to find out. I bet. I bet. Blam. I'm getting so blammed. I can't believe it, you guys. On my vlog. Yeah. Oh, what if it's blam? Vlam. Vlam. Vlogs. Vib. Vlam.

Vlam. Blam. So dumb. All right. Quiz show continues without stopping. Can't stop. Won't stop. Uh-uh.

Uh-uh. So here is a quiz. Like when you bring it down. When you're like, let's slow this down. Here's a quiz called, Who Am I? And which I will give you clues of increasing bluntness.

I will start telling you some things biographically about a person ranging from obscure to beating you over the head with it. And we'll see which of you can identify this person first. And obviously, if you can get it from a really obscure thing first, that really proves that you're doing well at this whole trivia business. All right. There is a theme of the five people and or groups of people that I'm asking you to identify. It is a rather specific theme. are, of course, other things linking these people together. Like, they have eyes. But, like, there's, there's a

really, really, really nitty-gritty specific theme here. Oh, okay. All right. All right. So, we've never done something like this yet. Yeah, so here we go. Okay, here we go. I wrote a children's book called Mr. Peabody's apples. Growing up, my family called me Little Nani. I once played a baseball player named May Mordabito.

Karen. Madonna. Madonna. Oh. Yes. Because I know she wrote children's book. She did. I didn't know what the nony one. Well put together. The last couple of clues were,

I am the most successful solo artist in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, and one of my biggest tits is Like a Prayer. See, we're really, yeah. It's really good. Yeah. We are a musical group. The original name of the group was Atban clan. We have our own video game.

Our lead singer was on the TV... What? Who buzzed in? He busted at the same time. I was going to guess kiss. It is not kiss. Karen. Aerosmith.

It is not Aerosmith. Journey. Our lead singer was on the TV show Kids Incorporated. Oh. Karen? Black-eyed peas. The black-eyed peas. Yes.

Finally, one of our biggest hits is Boom Boom, Pooh. Okay, here's another. I will lend my voice to next year's animated movies. movie, Rio 2. It's the first movie I will appear in since my debut in honeymoon in Vegas in the year 1992. Wow. I appeared in that movie as a seven-year-old Elvis impersonator, which is something that I was

doing in real life. Before my successful solo career, I co-wrote songs like Right Round. Karen. Kesha. It is not. She wasn't. my biggest single is titled Just the Way You Are

You are Bruno Mars When he was a toddler He did Elvis impersonations In his native Honolulu Why true story And was in the movie

Honeymoon in Vegas Here's another person Actually here's a musical group We are a rock group We all come from Acton in London, England We were once known as The High Numbers

College I'm pretty sure that's the who. That is the who, yes. The last clues were, we call it auto-destructive art. Everyone else calls it smashing guitars on stage. And one of our biggest songs is Pinball Wizard. The fifth and final, it is a person. I was born in Houston, Texas.

Karen. Beyonce Knowles. Wow. There you go. My goodness. I know the theme, too. I think I know the theme too. So let me run, I'll run through the final clues for that one, just so everybody can hear it.

When I was eight, I joined in a, all-girls singing group called Girls' Time. Girls' Time eventually changed its name, and I occasionally still perform with them, although I'm more of a solo success. I once appeared in Austin Powers film, and one of my biggest hits is called Single Ladies Now. Damn. That is, in fact, Beyonce. Karen had put together that they are all clearly musicians, which really helped her.

No, I know what it is. Oh, I think I know. Yeah, you guys want to write it down to see if we can... I want to see who knows. Because then the other one of you was just going to say, oh, yeah, that... Yeah, that's what I was. I was going to say. So Karen and Colin are going to write down what they believe the theme of these five people and or musical groups is.

Again, it's not that they're all musicians. It's a, it is a very, very nitpicky, specific theme. As usual, I'm having the case where I'm doubting my answers. I've written it down. There's a certain thing that's my own. Okay. And we are going to reveal. Oh!

Yes, you both got it right. They are the last five performers who played the halftime show at the store. at the Super Bowl Bruno Mars will be playing in February of 2014 Okay And that was the only one

I was unsure about That's so funny Because after I wrote it I'm like Wait did the Who play I was not sure about the Who After Black IPs I was like okay

Oh okay That's great Wow Hey very good Nice job At least for a second I was happy Like well

If I missed it At least we missed it together Thanks Geez Wow That was fun While I was researching this

This is so interesting So it was the year that Fox put on, I believe it was 92. They put on a live episode of In Living Color to essentially counter-programmed the Super Bowl halftime show, which up to that point, the Super Bowl halftime shows were like a salute to Hollywood. And it would just be a bunch of like kind of bee celebrities like singing sorry for Hollywood. And that was what it was for a long time. And then after Fox was able to, like, siphon viewers away from it, that is when they started going really, really big. And they were like, the next year was Michael Jackson.

And then, like, after that, it was, like, one huge, huge pop star. Like, you cannot miss this. They're like, we need to be more hip. Yeah. That's good. Woo. Yeah. Get to Toronto's main venues like Budweiser Stage and the new Roger Stadium with Go Transit.

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Interpolation scenario. Yes. It's fine that it's different every time. Technology evolves. The reason I think Dana would like this one is because this is all about... Oh, if you have a mobile Elvis, it'd be Melvis. Melvis. Gross. Or I prefer portable Elvis.

It would be Pelvis. Which is more fitting. Yeah. Oh, yeah. A lot better. Pocket Elvis. I think the reason Dana might enjoy this one is because it's all about TV theme songs. Oh. Yes. So the usual trick applies.

Elvis is our computerized, synthesized voice from a 1980s era robot. He will be reading, singing, talking, opening lines from TV theme songs, hit, big hit shows from the 80s, 90s, 2000. And we have to identify the show. I tried to make, you know what, it's funny. As I was doing. If you don't listen to the song, it's like, because you have the buildup and the intro, like, I don't really. I'm not going to say that I catered the show to you guys, but I tried to set you up for success. I'll just put it that way.

But it's funny. That's the same thing. As I was doing the research, so many shows have gone to instrumental themes these days. It's tough to find, it's tough to find shows with, yeah, shows with lyrical theme songs are kind of on the outs. Like, it's cheesy, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's either instrumental or they take a. already existing song.

Yeah, and so keep that in mind. Some of these examples on a play to you may be existing songs that were co-opted for a show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So these are mostly sitcoms, but not all. I'm going to win this thing. I'm ready to take this one home. Okay, here we go. First one.

You woke up this morning, got yourself a gun. Mama always said you'd be the chosen one. She said, you're one in a million. You've got to burn to shine. Together. The Sopranos. Yes, the Sopranos. The one that Karen was gay.

All right, here we go. For real now. Yeah, yeah. Just to kind of wet your appetite. All right. Sometimes the world looks perfect. Nothing to rearrange. Sometimes you just get a feeling like you need some kind of change.

No matter what the odds are this time, nothing's going to stand in my way. Oh, what? Chris. It is perfect strangers. That is perfect strangers. Standing tall On the way of the start Sometimes the world looks

Sometimes the world looks perfect Nothing to rearrange Sometimes you just Get a feeling Yeah Standing tall All right We're going to stay sort of in the same era

For this next one Whatever happened to Predictability The Milkman The Paperboy Evening TV everywhere you look everywhere you go there's a heart

a hand to hold on to same era somewhat the same era Chris full house it is full house yes yes all right a little bit of a newer show here good our whole universe was in a hot and state

then nearly 14 billion years ago expansion started wait what Karen Big Bang It is Big Bang Theory. The Big Bang Theory.

Yes, the Big Bang Theory. For a bonus point, you can tell me who performs the song. They Might Be Giants. It is Bear Naked Lady. Oh, no. No, it's the M.I.P. Giants is Malcolm in the middle. Oh, yeah, that's right. Bear Naked Ladies.

All right. Last one here. We will close it out. You guys may recognize this one outright, but if you don't, the lyrics will hint at what the show is about. Okay. I want to be the very best Like no one ever was To catch them is my real test To train them is my cause To catch them

Yes, Pokemon Wow So that's a little bit of view into what Elvis likes to watch on TV All righty And that's the end of our All Quiz Bonanza number 17 Excuse me, my nose is very stuffed up now for some weird reason.

She's allergic to trivia. Yeah. Oh, no. Oh, no. Well, thank you guys for joining me. I thank you guys listeners for listening and hope you learned a lot about company names, of foreign company names, about portmanteaus, about TV theme songs. You can find us on iTunes, on Stitcher, on SoundCloud, and also on our website,

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